STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1163
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 1056
H.D. 1
S.D. 2
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1056, H.D. 1, S.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 allow the Department of Education to determine alternative routes to certification for school principals and vice-principals by allowing candidates for these positions to be certified based on experience that is equivalent to appropriate school-level experience, as determined by the department.
Your Committee finds that current standards for the certification of principals and vice-principals are too restrictive and conflict with requirements of the federal Race to the Top grant program, which provides educational funds to states that advance educational reform, including the provision of alternative routes to certification for teachers and principals. This measure will allow the Department of Education to determine appropriate equivalent experience for principal and vice-principal certification, to comply with Race to the Top grant requirements and help the department attract and retain qualified administrators for public schools.
Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1056, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1056, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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