Bill Text: HI SB2068 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Junior Kindergarten; Early Learning System; Assessment Plan

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-06-29 - (S) Act 183, 6/29/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 644). [SB2068 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2068-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1154-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2068

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2068, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EARLY EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to enable Hawaii's children to succeed in Kindergarten and establishing the basis for their subsequent schooling by requiring the Department of Education and the Early Learning Council (ELC) to work together on the development and submission of a plan to the Legislature for the integration of the cohort of children who would otherwise attend junior kindergarten into the early learning system.

 

     ELC, the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, and Good Beginnings Alliance testified in support of 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. 2068, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair