Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 60 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request that the Department of Education exempt from the weighted student formula all Comprehensive School Alienation Program (CSAP) monies used for the High Core Program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the High Core Program and one individual. Comments in opposition to this measure were received from the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that although the High Core Program is not unique per se in its mission, it is unique in the way it now faces budget cuts due to implementation of the weighted student formula, and exempting CSAP monies from the weighted student formula specifically for the High Core Program is proper under these circumstances.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 60 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.