kkerr@hsta.org2021-03-02T09:50:00-10:00February 18, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: budget, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, cut, cuts, federal stimulus, funding, jobs, Kenneth Uemura, Lynn Fallin, reduction, special education, SPPA, wsf|
Most of the millions of dollars worth of sweeping job cuts and program reductions planned for public schools next fall will be restored, Hawaii State Department of Education officials informed the Board of Education Thursday. Board members also made shortage differential funding a priority for next school year and did not approve using federal stimulus funds to hire outside tutors.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-18T21:37:06-10:00February 18, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: bonuses, Corey Rosenlee, differentials, Eric Seitz, hard-to-staff, Hawaiian language immersion, Osa Tui, pay, shortage, special education, SPED, teachers, vacancies, Wilbert Holck|
The Hawaii Board of Education Thursday afternoon voted overwhelmingly to continue paying shortage differentials to public school teachers across the state, directing Schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto to rescind her memo by the close of business Friday that would have ended the $3,000 to $10,000 payments to teachers in areas faced with chronic vacancies.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-17T18:40:15-10:00February 17, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: Brian Hallet, budget, budget cuts, Cheri Nakamura, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, COVID-19, Della Au Bellati, DOE, Donna Mercado Kim, federal funds, Jeanne Kapela, Justin Woodson, lawmakers, layoffs, legislators, michelle kidani, pay cuts, positions, relief, schools, Senate, Senate Education Committee|
The schools superintendent faces increasing pressure from state lawmakers to rescind budget cuts and direct federal stimulus aid to keep school employees on the payroll and maintain their current levels of pay instead of implementing pay cuts, layoffs, or hiring tutors.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-14T16:04:27-10:00February 14, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: board, BOE, budgets, federal aid, proposal, SPPA, stimulus, testimony, tutors, weighted student formula, written testimony, wsf|
Join us in asking the Board of Education to prioritize restoring all cuts to the weighted student formula (WSF) and special education per-pupil allocation (SPPA), which would eliminate the need for layoffs of any HIDOE employees, including all teachers. HSTA will further ask HIDOE to follow the law by using federal stimulus funding to avoid future pay cuts.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-12T20:04:22-10:00February 12, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, register, shots, survey, tips, vaccinations, vaccines|
A slim 52-percent majority of members who completed a Hawaii State Teachers Association vaccination survey during Institute this week reported receiving one or two doses of coronavirus vaccines; a sign that progress has been made, but there’s still a long way to go.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-12T20:20:14-10:00February 12, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: Becky Pringle, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Corey Rosenlee, coronavirus, COVID-19, reopening, schools, standards|
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Friday released new guidelines about the safe delivery of in-person instruction at K-12 schools.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-14T16:03:28-10:00February 12, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, BOE, bonus, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, cuts, differentials, discontinue, eliminate, hard-to-staff, Hawaiian language immersion, pay, shortage, special education, vacancies|
The superintendent’s memo is misleading. While she indicates that the shortage differential program was a pilot, this is not the case. These differentials were enacted and approved by the Board of Education based on Kishimoto's request on Dec. 5, 2019.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-13T17:54:51-10:00February 12, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: bills, Corey Rosenlee, cuts, funds, jobs, Justin Woodson, lawmakers, layoffs, legislature, michelle kidani, pay, proposals, school employees, stimulus|
State Senate and House leaders have introduced bills that direct the Hawaii Department of Education to use millions in federal stimulus funding to preserve educators’ jobs, contrary to a HIDOE plan to use nearly one-third of stimulus funds bound for the education department to hire outside tutors.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-12T18:15:23-10:00February 12, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: E-STEM, high school students, Mālama Kamananui Valley Environmental Education Initiative, Michael Lee, Moanalua Gardens Foundation, Moanalua Valley, Stewardship Training Program, virtual Open House|
Moanalua Gardens Foundation recently launched an environmental education initiative, which is a free, in-person program to teach Oahu high school students about the Kamananui (Moanalua) Valley in a hands-on outdoor classroom experience.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-12T06:41:47-10:00February 11, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: assignment, deadline, delay, line, line assignments, lines, TATP, transfer|
The Hawaii State Teachers Association has reached an agreement with the Hawaii State Department of Education to push back the deadline for the first Teacher Assignment and Transfer Program (TATP) posting by one month.
