STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1471

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   S.B. No. 1282

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1282, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to prepare for the implementation of newly-adopted Common Core State Standards for public schools by repealing the administration of norm-referenced testing for certain grades on July 1, 2015.  This bill also makes a school or complex that administers norm-referenced testing responsible for all contracts and costs relating to the testing. 

     The Department of Education and Hawaii State Teachers Association supported this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1282, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair