STAND. COM. REP. NO. 326

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 682

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 682 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLEGE PREPARATORY PROGRAMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii for the establishment of a college preparatory online academy.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Education and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will increase the opportunities for highly capable secondary students to take enriched, accelerated, college preparatory, or college level classes and enable them to meet the requirements of college and career entry. 

     Your Committee has amended this measure to specify that the University of Hawaii will work in full partnership with the Department of Education to establish a college preparatory online academy.  Your Committee also amended this measure to make technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.

     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. 682, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 682, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair