STAND. COM. REP. NO. 73

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1044

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1044 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate monies to the Department of Education to provide engineering design process training sessions to teachers.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.

     Your Committee finds that subject-appropriate teaching strategies and techniques are vital to teachers in their mission to provide a quality education to Hawaii's students.  Your Committee further finds that, especially in STEM fields, engineering design process techniques are particularly useful in the classroom.  This measure will equip Hawaii's teachers to add engineering design process principles and techniques to their classes as appropriate.

     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. 1044 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your 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