Terri Inefuku2022-01-25T16:58:33-10:00January 25, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: executive director, HSTA, job opening, retire, Wilbert Holck|
Hawaii State Teachers Association Executive Director Wilbert Holck plans to retire next year after a distinguished career lasting 31 years at the union. HSTA has convened an Executive Director Search Committee composed of its state officers and appointed leaders tasked with finding a new executive director.
Terri Inefuku2022-01-17T11:54:21-10:00January 16, 2022|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: Board of Education, coronavirus, COVID-19, general business meeting, Human Resources Committee, meeting, Red Hill, teacher retention, testimony, vaccination, Water contamination|
This Thursday, Jan. 20, the Hawaii Board of Education will hold a series of meetings. Agenda items include teacher retention and shortage differentials, the superintendent search, Red Hill water contamination, and COVID-19 update for the 2021–22 school year. If you are affected by any of these topics, please submit written and, if possible, oral testimony. Your voice is necessary to ensure that board members are fully aware of the realities within our schools.
Terri Inefuku2022-01-13T15:25:25-10:00January 13, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, collective bargaining agreement, contract, gender-neutral, Hawaii State Department of Education, HSTA, pronouns|
The 2021–23 Hawaii State Teachers Association Collective Bargaining Agreement, or contract, has been updated with gender-neutral language. Previous contracts utilized masculine pronouns in reference to gender types.
Terri Inefuku2022-01-13T15:48:42-10:00January 13, 2022|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: absent, coronavirus, COVID-19, leave, lesson plans, personal leave, shortage, substitute|
Despite the Hawaii State Department of Education’s repeated claims that there are plenty of substitute teachers in the pool (they say 3,200), we know otherwise. Many substitutes in that pool are not accepting jobs during COVID-19. Some of them tell us they’re getting a half dozen or more calls a day and turning them down.
Terri Inefuku2022-01-12T18:09:17-10:00January 12, 2022|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: collective bargaining agreement, contract violations, coronavirus, COVID-19, demand for bargaining, grievance, impact bargaining, Keith Hayashi, school closures, superintendent, teacher reassignments|
This week, the Hawaii State Teachers Association submitted a new demand for impact bargaining to interim Schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi and Hawaii Board of Education Chair Catherine Payne over recent changes by the Hawaii State Department of Education to members’ working conditions without appropriate negotiation or a consult-and-confer process, which are violations of our contract, HIDOE policy, and state law.
Terri Inefuku2022-01-11T16:14:45-10:00January 11, 2022|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, guidance, Hawaii State Department of Education, health and safety, isolation, Keith Hayashi, Omicron, quarantine, superintendent|
Unfortunately, with omicron cases soaring, the HIDOE still appears woefully unprepared to manage staffing and COVID-19 response with entire classes moved to cafeterias, gyms, or auditoriums given teacher absences and substitute shortage.
Terri Inefuku2022-01-11T16:26:23-10:00January 11, 2022|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: boosted, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 test, fully vaccinated, isolation, quarantine, return to school, return to work, vaccine|
The two major areas that have changed include definitions for being boosted or fully vaccinated recently, for purposes of quarantine requirements, and a reduction in the number of days someone would need to quarantine from 10 to five.
Terri Inefuku2021-12-29T17:22:39-10:00December 29, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: contingency plans, coronavirus, COVID-19, data, Department of Education, Department of Health, DOE, DOH, Hawaii State Department of Education, HIDOE, Omicron, reopening, variant|
The Hawaii State Department of Education and the Hawaii Department of Health had time to make better plans for situations such as this and failed to act in a responsible way.
Terri Inefuku2021-12-23T11:00:43-10:00December 23, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: 21 hours, Class VII, hawaii state legislature, holiday message, HSTA state leaders, legislative session, reclassification cap, salary compression, winter break|
One of the most precious things we have is time — a non-renewable resource that each of us spends and cannot save. Throughout the pandemic, educators have had to expend additional time from a finite supply to meet the needs of our students. It has not been easy.
Terri Inefuku2021-12-17T13:55:16-10:00December 17, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: amendment, CBR, Charter Bylaws and Resolutions, HSTA Convention, NBI, new business item, proposal, resolution|
In preparation for the annual HSTA Convention, which will take place April 2, 2022, we’re looking for proposals to guide the direction of our association. Write a proposed amendment, resolution, and/or new business item to be discussed and voted on at our annual convention.
