STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2296

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2458
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2458 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to
establish a Safety Risk Management Alliance Pilot Program.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Education and Hawaii State Teachers Association.

     Your Committee finds that in the 1995 Hawaii Youth Risk
Behavior Survey Report, nearly 100 out of 1,244 students surveyed
in 22 public high schools statewide carried a weapon on school
property.  At the 1997 Student Governance Summit almost all
delegates supported higher qualifications and more training for
school security attendants.  For the past twenty-three years the
Hawaii State Student Conference has recommended that schools
address security problems.

     The Department of Education has initiated the Safety Risk
Management Alliance as pilot programs for high schools in the
Honolulu, leeward, and windward districts, which is modeled after
the central district's federally funded safety program.  A school
safety manager is required for each pilot program, which requires
each participating high school to have a professional security
officer who acts as a school safety manager and is on campus to
be directly in charge of security attendants. 

 
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     Your Committee agrees that a safety risk management alliance
program is necessary to address the problem of crime on public
high school campuses throughout Hawaii.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 2458 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Education and
                                   Technology,



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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