STAND. COM. REP. NO.  701-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   S.B. No. 2903

      S.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Higher Education and Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2903, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE COLLEGE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to strengthen and ensure a continuum of Hawaiian medium education from the early grades through college, by requiring the College of Hawaiian Language (College) at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH-Hilo), Department of Education (DOE), and Charter School Administrative Office (CSAO) to enter into an agreement regarding the College's functions related to Ke Kula o Nawahiokalaniopuu Public Charter School and other schools as laboratory schools.

     The College and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  DOE and CSAO opposed this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2903, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Education,

____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair