Jill Meinecke2022-01-13T16:08:25-10:00January 13, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: City Council, compression, Council on Revenues, educators, Hawaii Department of Education, House Education Committee, HSTA legislative priorities, Jeanne Kapela, legislative session, Osa Tui Jr, salary compression, Step increase, step movement, Sylvia Luke, Veteran teachers|
With Hawaii expecting an improved economic outlook, leaders at the state Legislature plan on introducing proposals aimed at finally paying teachers for their years of experience, fixing salary compression.
Evan Kumasaki2022-10-01T11:24:42-10:00March 13, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: bill, compensation, compression, differentials, salaries, Senate, teachers|
Earlier in the day, teachers from Oahu and Maui delivered educator declarations signed by thousands of HSTA members across the state calling for higher pay for veterans and differentials for key shortage areas in special education, hard-to-staff schools and Hawaiian language immersion.
Evan Kumasaki2020-03-12T07:24:00-10:00March 12, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: bill, compression, differentials, funding, hard-to-staff, Hawaiian language immersion, House, salary, SB2488, SPED, teacher compensation, testimony|
The House Committee on Labor & Public Employment, along with the Committee on Lower & Higher Education, will hear SB2488, SD2 Relating to teacher compensation on Friday, March 13, at 2 p.m. at the Hawaii State Capitol, Room 309. Written and oral testimony will be accepted.
Evan Kumasaki2020-03-04T09:56:00-10:00March 4, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: bill, compression, differentials, HSTA, legislature, salary, Senate, teacher compensation|
"This is a great first step," said HSTA President Corey Rosenlee. "The bill is now going to move over to the House, where we’re going to continue to work with legislators to make sure that we find a way to fund teacher compensation, including things such as the differentials and compression."
Evan Kumasaki2020-02-28T09:41:00-10:00February 28, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: bill, committee, compression, differentials, HSTA, legislature, salary, Senate, step, teacher compensation, ways and means|
The Senate Ways and Means Committee passed SB2488, SD1 with amendments (11 ayes, 2 excused) Wednesday morning. Mahalo to all who submitted testimony on such short notice.
Evan Kumasaki2020-02-05T11:39:00-10:00February 5, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: compression, cost of living, Department of Education, DOE, pay, salary study, teacher compensation|
The results from an independent teacher compensation study commissioned by the Hawai‘i State Department of Education (HIDOE) show Hawaii’s cost of living and compression of salaries for experienced educators as the top challenges to recruiting and retaining public school teachers.
Evan Kumasaki2020-02-04T06:16:00-10:00February 4, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: bill, compression, differentials, funding, hard-to-staff, Hawaiian language immersion, SB2488, SPED, testimony|
We need testimony from teachers, counselors, and school librarians at DOE and public charter schools in support of SB 2488, Proposed SD1. Please take a few minutes to write and submit testimony!
Evan Kumasaki2020-01-18T06:07:00-10:00January 18, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, BOE, christina kishimoto, Cindy Covell, compression, Corey Rosenlee, Department of Education, DOE, HSTA, lawmakers, Raise, salary, step|
“This is a bold step to finally take care of this problem to make sure that every keiki in Hawaii has a qualified teacher,” said HSTA President Corey Rosenlee in testimony to the BOE Thursday.
Evan Kumasaki2022-09-30T14:04:38-10:00January 11, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, christina kishimoto, compression, Corey Rosenlee, differentials, increase, lawmakers, pay, salary adjustment, shortage differentials, steps|
Veteran teachers statewide would receive salary increases by moving up anywhere from one to five steps, gaining millions of dollars worth of salary increases if lawmakers approve a proposal from the state schools superintendent.
Evan Kumasaki2022-10-01T11:25:47-10:00December 5, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: bonus, bonuses, campaign, compression, Corey Rosenlee, hard-to-staff, Hawaiian language immersion, shortage differential, special education, step increases, teacher shortage crisis|
The proposals to address compression, create shortage differentials for SpEd and Hawaiian language immersion educators and expand hard-to-staff bonuses are a positive step forward in the HSTA's five-year plan to end the statewide teacher shortage crisis.
