Bill Text: HI SCR87 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Review; ESL; Hawaiian Language Programs

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-06-22 - (S) Certified copies of resolutions sent, 06-19-12. [SCR87 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR87-Amended.html

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1797-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.C.R. No. 87

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 87, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING A REVIEW OF THE STATE'S FUNDING FOR EXISTING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION AND ACTIVITIES AND HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS OFFERED IN HAWAII AND ANY DISPARITIES IN FUNDING FOR THE STATE'S TWO OFFICIAL LANGUAGES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to promote the Hawaiian language in the State's educational system.  Specifically, this measure:

    

     (1)  Requests the University of Hawaii, with the assistance of the Department of Education and other educational organizations, to review the State's funding for current English as a Second Language instruction and activities and Hawaiian language programs and to determine any differences in funding; and

 

     (2)  Requests the University of Hawaii to report its findings and recommendations, including projected costs to address any disparities in funding, to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2013.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Department of Education, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and a concerned individual supported the measure.  

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 87, S.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

 

____________________________

FAYE HANOHANO, Chair

 

 

 

 

 

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