STAND. COM. REP. NO 111

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 252

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 252 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHARTER SCHOOLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a special fund for the operation of the state public charter school commission and charter schools.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Hawaii State Teachers Association.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the State Public Charter Schools Commission and Department of Budget and Finance.

     Your Committee finds that this measure may facilitate greater economic efficiency and transparency in the public charter school system by creating a more distinct separation between the State Public Charter School Commission and State public charter schools funding.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment 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 S.B. No. 252, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 252, 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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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair