Benefits Huge When We Invest in Schools Legislators Urged to Commit to Improving Education The "inconvenient truth" is that the poor condition of our public school campuses reflects long-standing priorities of our community.
Keeping Highly Qualified Teachers Requires Affordable Housing Cost of Living an Issue in Location Decisions Currently, 50 percent of newly hired teachers leave Hawaii public schools within five years. The shortage of highly qualified teachers in Hawaii's public school is only going to increase in the coming years.
HSTA Supports Hui Ho'omalu in Recruiting Foster/Resource Families Partnership Will Help Boost Program Awareness In Hawai'i, there are over 2,100 children and youth in foster care. These children have been abused or neglected and their families are unable to care for them.
NEA Testifies Against Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind Law President Reg Weaver Calls Draft Language "Dysfunctional" NEA President Reg Weaver called on members of the House Education and Labor Committee to reject draft language currently under discussion for the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act while testifying to the Committee today.
New Report Indicates That Americans Believe NCLB Narrows Curriculum Poll Shows Public Increasingly Views NCLB Unfavorably According to the 39th Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Annual Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, more Americans are more familiar with the federal No Child Left Behind Act than they were last year -- and like it even less.
NEA President Calls on Congress to Invest in Education Closing Tax Loopholes and Creating Economic Development Centers Are Key National Education Association President Reg Weaver is calling for a new, national education initiative to strengthen schools and develop the nation's "human capital" in order to keep America competitive in the 21st century.
Parents Television Council Slams Ratings TV Executives Still Hiding Behind a System that Doesn't Work This is the Parents Television Council's fifth report examining the television ratings system. The Council concluded that the ratings system is a sham.
November 4, 2005 HSTA Speaks Out On Standards-Based Report Cards
June 28, 2005 HSTA Sends Team of 60 Teachers to NEA Annual Meeting
May 30, 2005 Roosevelt High Seniors to Present Totem Poles to Noelani, Lincoln and Ma'e Ma'e Schools
April 29, 2005 House-Senate Conferees Agree to Restore Health Plan for Public School Teachers
April 28, 2005 HSTA Members Vote "Yes" On New Contract
April 25, 2005 Teachers to Vote on Contract Ratification
April 24, 2005 HSTA Reaches Contract Settlement with DOE
April 2, 2005 HSTA Releases Complete Findings of Recent Member Survey at Annual Convention
April 1, 2005 Lily Eskelsen, Secretary-Treasurer of the National Education Association, To Speak – and Sing! – at HSTA's Annual Convention.
March 14, 2005 HSTA Member Survey Finds Half of Current Teachers Don't Plan to be Teaching in 5 Years
January 21, 2005 HSTA Holds Briefing To Educate Legislators on Teacher Shortage
January 11, 2005 HSTA Begins Media Campaign Highlighting Teacher Shortage