Jill Meinecke2022-01-25T14:48:37-10:00January 25, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Water Supply, BOE, catherine payne, Department of Health, fuel contamination, HSTA Central Chapter, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Osa Tui Jr, Red Hill, Sierra Club Hawaii, U.S. Navy, Virtual forum|
Educators from seven Hawaii public schools affected by contaminated water from the U.S. Navy’s Red Hill fuel tanks spoke at an HSTA virtual forum Monday night to share their experiences. The event also included presentations from the Board of Water Supply and Sierra Club of Hawaii.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-09-22T13:42:29-10:00September 17, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: Bill Arakaki, Bruce Voss, catherine payne, CDC, DOH, guidelines, Keith Hayashi, Osa Tui, Phyllis Unebasami, schools, testing|
Interim Superintendent Keith Hayashi of the Hawaii State Department of Education came under fire Thursday for haphazard COVID-19 testing in public schools and said he had not held discussions yet with state health officials about a possible vaccination mandate for public school students age 12 and older.
Terri Inefuku2021-08-18T19:15:44-10:00August 18, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: BOE, catherine payne, coronavirus, COVID-19, David Ige, demand, distance learning, governor, Hawaii Board of Education, impact bargaining, interim superintendent, Keith Hayashi, Negotiations, open letter, quarantine|
In a news conference Wednesday, HSTA President Osa Tui, Jr. outlined the stark discrepancy between what officials are telling the public and what’s really happening in Hawaii’s public schools.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-07-14T09:17:39-10:00July 14, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: board, Board of Education, BOE, catherine payne, christina kishimoto, distance learning, DOE, HSTA, Osa Tui, remote instruction, reopening, students|
For every teacher the state dedicates to distance learning when students return to class in August, it would need to pull a teacher out of the classroom, state Schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto said Tuesday.
Terri Inefuku2021-06-07T17:18:45-10:00June 3, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: 21 hours, Board of Education, catherine payne, contract, Hawaii State Department of Education, HIDOE, job-embedded professional development, office of talent management, professional development, sean bacon, settlement|
At Thursday’s Board of Education meeting, Sean Bacon, interim assistant superintendent, Office of Talent Management, and BOE Chair Catherine Payne, expressed their support for job-embedded professional development (21 hours).
kkerr@hsta.org2021-05-21T17:00:25-10:00May 21, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: aid, board, Board of Education, BOE, bonuses, Bruce Voss, catherine payne, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, differentials, federal pandemic, funding, Jeanne Kapela, lawmakers, payments, shortage differentials, special education, teachers|
HIDOE is using the differentials to recruit, retain teachers Posted: May 21, 2021 Board of Education leaders voiced strong support Thursday for continuing teacher shortage differentials next school year and the Hawaii State Department of Education is still touting them in recruitment and retention materials even as the department works to find exactly how it will pay for them. Bruce Voss, who chairs the BOE’s Finance and Infrastructure Committee, said Thursday that the budget passed by lawmakers awaiting the governor’s signature or veto did not fund “the $32.5 million teacher differential that this board approved [...]
kkerr@hsta.org2021-03-19T12:26:42-10:00March 18, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: board, Board of Education, BOE, Bruce Voss, catherine payne, christina kishimoto, committee, Herbert Uemura, interim, Kaimana Bacarse, Margaret Cox, search, superintendent|
The Hawaii Board of Education Thursday voted to approve the creation of a special committee to set a search timeline and process to select a new superintendent for Hawaii public schools.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-03-04T17:01:39-10:00March 4, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: appointment, board, Board of Education, BOE, catherine payne, christina kishimoto, committee, contract, Derek Minakami, Human Resources, Mike Landes, reappointed, Rebecca Hadley-Schlosser|
After receiving an overwhelming amount of written and oral testimony critical of the leadership of Hawaii’s controversial state schools superintendent Christina Kishimoto, the Hawaii Board of Education’s Human Resources Committee postponed a vote to consider whether to approve her new contract.
Evan Kumasaki2021-02-05T01:28:40-10:00January 22, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Amanda Lacar, board, BOE, catherine payne, christina kishimoto, federal, firing, funds, HSTA, Julie Reyes Oda, Kenneth Uemura, layoffs, Maggie Cox, Osa Tui, plan, stimulus, tutor, tutoring|
The Hawaii Board of Education Thursday tabled a controversial Hawaii Department of Education proposal to use $53 million in federal pandemic stimulus funds to hire tutors for public school students as the department contemplates laying off hundreds of teachers, education assistants, and other staff.
Evan Kumasaki2021-02-07T17:59:15-10:00December 18, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: aid, bargaining rights, Bruce Voss, catherine payne, christina kishimoto, congress, Corey Rosenlee, cuts, David Ige, days, furlough, furloughs, Herbert Uemura, Kili Namauu, pay cuts, rescind, school days, superintendent|
Members of the Hawaii State Board of Education Thursday said they oppose school employee furloughs, and several went so far as to ask the governor to rescind the furloughs since members of Congress are finalizing a pandemic aid package that contains more than $54 billion for public schools.
