STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1146

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   S.B. No. 501

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 501 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TEACHER EDUCATION COORDINATING COMMITTEE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to support the Teacher Education Coordinating Committee (TECC) in its work to strengthen the efforts of all teacher education institutions in Hawaii to prepare quality teachers for Hawaii's public schools.  Specifically, this bill changes the membership of the TECC by:

     (1)  Including a representative from each accredited state-approved teacher education unit, rather than from each accredited teacher training institution in Hawaii; and

     (2)  Clarifying that the Superintendent of Education and the Dean of the College of Education may each appoint additional members to the TECC as needed.

     The Department of Education and Hawaii Teacher Standards Board supported this bill.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 501 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair