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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES             H.C.R. NO.            
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                     HOUSE CONCURRENT
                        RESOLUTION
EXPEDITING THE FINAL PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ACT 367,
   SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII, 1989.



 1       WHEREAS, the Legislature has long recognized the paramount
 2   importance of making voluntary early childhood education and
 3   care available to the children of the State of Hawai`i, many of
 4   whom are growing up in households with two working parents or
 5   in households where all of their care must come from a single
 6   parent; and
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 8       WHEREAS, research both in Hawai`i and in other states has
 9   well documented the difference that early childhood education
10   and care makes in an individual's lifelong achievement and
11   happiness; and
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13       WHEREAS, those very children who could benefit the most
14   from attending pre-school, the children of the poor and
15   disadvantaged, are the very children least likely to have the
16   opportunity of attending privately offered pre-school; and  
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18       WHEREAS, more than ten years ago, Act 367, Session Laws of
19   of Hawaii, (SLH) 1989, required the Department of Education to
20   develop a plan for quality voluntary early childhood education
21   and care which "shall be fully implemented and available
22   statewide to all eligible children ... no later than January 1,
23   2000"; and
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25       WHEREAS, the deadline has now passed with neither the
26   required implementation nor any explanation from the Department
27   of Education; now, therefore,
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29       BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the
30   Twentieth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session
31   of 2000, the Senate concurring, that the Department of
32   Education is urged to proceed with all speed in the final
33   planning and implementation of this important program in
34   accordance with Act 367, SLH 1989; and 

 
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 1       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Education is
 2   requested to submit a report on the status of its efforts to
 3   implement all of the requirements of Act 367, SLH 1989, to the
 4   Legislature not less than twenty days prior to the convening of
 5   the Regular Session of 2001; and
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 7       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this
 8   Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Superintendent of
 9   Education and the Chairperson of the Board of Education.   
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