Bill Text: HI HB1055 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Statewide Performance Standards; Norm-referenced Testing

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1055 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1055-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  755

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1055

      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 H.B. No. 1055 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to reallocate classroom time toward educational priorities that are in line with newly-adopted national standards by repealing the inclusion of norm-referenced tests in the state-wide assessment program.

 

     The Department of Education supported this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 H.B. No. 1055, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1055, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair