STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1368

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   S.B. No. 897

      S.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 897, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY TRAINING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to prepare students for the information technology age by providing a comprehensive project-based and student-centered learning program in which students are responsible for their own learning.  Specifically, this bill appropriates funds to be deposited into the Hawaii 3Ts School Technology Laboratories Fund to maintain the Project EAST Program (Program) in existing schools, and expand the Program to schools statewide.

     The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Department of Education, Department of Education Kauai Complex Area, High Technology Development Corporation, Hawaii State Teachers Association, Economic Development Alliance of Hawaii, Maui Economic Development Board, Inc., Hoike Technology, isisHawaii, Enterprise Honolulu, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 897, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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ROY TAKUMI, Chair