HSTA recent news
Jill Meinecke2025-05-14T13:06:01-10:00May 14, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Andrea Eshelman, HIBOE, HIDOE, ICE, immigration enforcement, Immigration guidance, Jill Tokuda, Keith Hayashi, Plyler v. DOE, Roy Takumi|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association is asking the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education to affirm that it won’t retaliate or discipline school employees who refuse to participate in immigration enforcement. The union also wants HIDOE to require administrators to be trained on immigration enforcement issues.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-14T13:07:45-10:00May 14, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Hawaii Board of Education, HIDOE, ICE, ICE raid, Immigration guidance, Kona Chapter, Konawaena Middle School, law enforcement guidance policy, President Donald Trump, U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda|
More than 40 people, most of them public school teachers, attended a talk-story event with U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda (D, Hawaiʻi) in Kona Saturday afternoon, organized by the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association to discuss immigration enforcement concerns. Afterwards, Tokuda called the meeting “heart-wrenching.”
Jill Meinecke2025-05-13T17:01:03-10:00May 13, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: APC, APC rep, arbitration, Association Policy Committee, collective bargaining agreement, grievance, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, HRS § 89-9(c), Justin Jansen, Office of Information Technology Services (OITS), UniServ director|
After a full arbitration hearing, the arbitrator sided with HSTA and upheld the grievance, filed by the Office of Information Technology Services (OITS), that asserted that the HIDOE must recognize the OITS Association Policy Committee (APC) under Article IV of the collective bargaining agreement.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-13T15:34:13-10:00May 13, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: design thinking, Design Thinking Hawaii, Hawaii Foundation for Educators, HFE, HSTA headquarters, interdisciplinary, professional development, Stanford d-School open-source process|
The Hawaiʻi State Teacher Association and Design Thinking Hawai’i are launching the Design Thinking Laboratory to empower teachers to integrate design thinking into their classrooms and develop interdisciplinary lesson plans or units for student implementation.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-13T09:53:37-10:00May 12, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Hawaiian Education Special Committee, Hawaiian language, ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, Jodi Beaty, Jr., Kāneʻohe, Koʻolau Chapter, Koʻolauloa, Koʻolaupoko, Kualoa Regional Park, Oʻahu, Osa Tui, Windward Chapter|
Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association leaders gathered Saturday at Kualoa Regional Park on Oʻahu to celebrate the renaming of its Koʻolau Chapter, formerly called Windward Chapter.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-09T10:39:48-10:00May 8, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Donald Trump, HSTA Maui Chapter, ICE, J1 visa program, Jr., Kahului, non-immigrant visa, Osa Tui, Sen. Brian Schatz, Sen. Mazie Hirono, teacher appreciation week, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement|
‘The whole situation was really overwhelming and traumatic for all of us’ Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2025 A Maui teacher went public Thursday with the harrowing story of gun-toting federal agents waking her and about 10 public school teachers here on non-immigrant visas early Tuesday morning and detaining them for at least 45 minutes in a raid searching for a man who apparently hadn’t lived in the home for more than a year. The teacher is a U.S. citizen who requested anonymity to protect her identity and the names of her educator colleagues who suffered through what [...]
Jill Meinecke2025-05-08T14:17:19-10:00May 8, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: 2025 legislative session, free school meals, Gov. Josh Green, hawaii state legislature, hazard pay, kaiapuni education, legislative priorities, legislature, paid family leave, public schools, Rep. Chris Todd, Trump Administration|
Despite financial uncertainty at the federal level, the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association is happy to report that, through persistent effort and your collective voice, we have achieved some very important wins for our members, students, and the future of public education in our state.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-06T16:19:30-10:00May 6, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Bess Press, Elementary students, elementary teacher, Hanahauʻoli Social Justice Educator Grant, Hōnaunau Elementary School, Native Books, social justice|
A Hawaiʻi Island first-grade teacher developed and is sharing a first-of-its-kind “K-5 social justice bibliography”— a curated, inclusive book list that is culturally relevant to Hawaiʻi and/or has social justice themes.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-06T10:52:38-10:00May 6, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Becky Pringle, budget cuts, charter schools, IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Mary Kusler, National Education Association, NEA, Title I, Trump Administration, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. DOE|
The Trump Administration released its proposed “skinny budget” Friday, which includes deep and harmful cuts to education funding, slashing $12 billion or roughly 15% of the U.S. Department of Education’s budget.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-02T13:28:13-10:00May 2, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Becky Pringle, CLEAR, federal cuts, Hawaii State Capitol, Hilo Chapter, International Workers Day, Kauai Chapter, Logan Okita, Maui chapter, May 1, May day, Mazie Hirono, Molokai Chapter, NEA, Trump adminstration, unions, Washington D.C.|
More than 100 teachers across Hawaiʻi took part in protests and marches Thursday on International Workers’ Day, in solidarity with federal workers who are losing their collective bargaining and union rights.
