STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3245

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 86

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 86 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO REDISTRICT STUDENTS WHO WILL BE LIVING IN THE KOA RIDGE DEVELOPMENT TO THE PEARL CITY-WAIPAHU COMPLEX AREA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Board of Education to redistrict students who will be living in the Koa Ridge development to the Pearl City-Waipahu complex area.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that the Koa Ridge development has started construction on three thousand five hundred new housing units in central Oahu. The development master plan includes plans for a new elementary school, but there are no plans for middle or high schools.

Your Committee further finds that Mililani Middle School is currently transitioning to a single-track calendar because of overpopulation of students at the school, a project that the Legislature has already dedicated $23,000,000 to complete. This project would be jeopardized if redistricting of Koa Ridge would send additional students to the Leilehua-Mililani-Waialua complex area because Mililani Middle School does not have the resources for additional capacity. In addition, your Committee notes that the Board of Education should consider that Mililani High School and Waipahu High School are two of the three largest high schools in the State and are already over-capacity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 86 and recommends that it 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