Bill Text: HI SCR79 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Education; Family Engagement
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-06-22 - (S) Certified copies of resolutions sent, 06-19-12. [SCR79 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR79-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3067
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.C.R. No. 79
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 79 entitled:
"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO COLLABORATE WITH PARENT ORGANIZATIONS TO ESTABLISH, IMPLEMENT, AND MONITOR STATEWIDE POLICIES FOR FAMILY ENGAGEMENT IN HAWAII'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Board of Education and Department of Education to collaborate with parent organizations to establish, implement, and monitor statewide policies for family engagement in the public schools.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, Hawai‘i State Parent Student Association, Hui for Excellence in Education, Special Education Advisory Council, Community Children's Council, Community Children's Council of Hawaii, Hawaii Education Matters, and Faith Action for Community Equity.
Your Committee finds that family engagement in public schools is a critical component of student success. Family engagement creates strategies and practices that support learning and greater student academic achievement.
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. 79 and recommends its adoption.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,
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____________________________ JILL TOKUDA, Chair |
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