STAND. COM. REP. NO. 944

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1056

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1056, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to permit the Department of Education to determine alternative routes to certification for principals and vice-principals.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education and the College of Education of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

     Your Committee finds that the current Department of Education requirements for certification of principals and vice-principals are too restrictive and conflict with requirements of the federal Race to the Top grant.  This measure will allow principal and vice-principal candidates to meet certification requirements through alternative routes to certification that meet the federal Race to the Top grant requirements.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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 H.B. No. 1056, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1056, H.D. 1, 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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JILL TOKUDA, Chair