STAND. COM. REP. NO.  36-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 2074

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2074 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CERTIFICATION OF PRINCIPALS AND VICE-PRINCIPALS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Education (DOE) to establish alternative routes to certification for principals and vice-principals that meet the criteria set by the United States Department of Education for state applications for Race to the Top fund allocations under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

     This bill also removes DOE's authority to waive the certification and school-level experience requirements for vice-principal candidates on a case-by-case basis.

     DOE and the Hawaii Government Employees Association offered comments.

     Your Committees intend that any effort to establish alternative routes to certification for principals and vice-principals be in alignment with the "Profile of an Effective School Leader," the document that sets the standards for DOE principals and vice-principals.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

     (1)  Allowing DOE to, on a case-by-case basis, waive certification requirements until the alternative routes to certification are established; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 H.B. No. 2074, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2074, H.D. 1, 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