Evan Kumasaki2020-10-03T02:15:00-10:00October 3, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: approve, Board of Education, BOE, catherine payne, Corey Rosenlee, in writing, Kili Namauu, reject, rejections, requirements, telework, written|
At a special meeting, the Hawaii State Board of Education Thursday took steps to improve teacher telework approval procedures by requiring administrators to provide reasons in writing for rejecting those requests during the pandemic.
Evan Kumasaki2020-11-05T15:58:32-10:00October 3, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: approve, Board of Education, BOE, catherine payne, Corey Rosenlee, in writing, Kili Namauu, reject, rejections, requirements, telework, written|
At a special meeting, the Hawaii State Board of Education Thursday took steps to improve teacher telework approval procedures by requiring administrators to provide reasons in writing for rejecting those requests during the pandemic.
Evan Kumasaki2020-11-05T15:53:17-10:00September 5, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: Andrea Eshelman, concerns, Corey Rosenlee, coronavirus, COVID-19, facebook, feedback, listening, listening session, live, Logan Okita, Osa Tui, presentation, questions, streaming, virtual, youtube|
HSTA’s officers want to hear about front-line teachers’ school reopening concerns in a virtual listening session on Thursday, Sept. 10.
Evan Kumasaki2021-02-05T07:17:17-10:00August 16, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: cases, congress, contact tracers, Corey Rosenlee, coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Education, Department of Health, employees, positive, schools, senators|
In the last four days, the Hawaii State Teachers Association has received reports of employees at seven Oahu schools diagnosed with COVID-19, even before students return to public school campuses on Monday.
Evan Kumasaki2020-11-05T15:47:34-10:00August 15, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: concerns, Corey Rosenlee, COVID-19, DOE, Eric Seitz, grab and go, HGEA, HIDOE, impact bargaining, Negotiations, Osa Tui, protocols, questions, reopening, requirements, restrictions, safety, sanitizing, school, social distancing|
Many principals and complex area superintendents have drastically changed their approach, opting for grab-and-go arrangements to keep the number of students on campuses much lower than originally planned.
Evan Kumasaki2020-07-31T12:47:00-10:00July 31, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: board, Board of Education, BOE, calendar, changes, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, coronavirus, COVID-19, delay, Dwight Takeno, Kili Naumauu, pandemic, students|
The change gives school staff an additional nine days for training and preparation before students to return to class.
Evan Kumasaki2020-07-25T10:49:00-10:00July 25, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, BOE, classrooms, Corey Rosenlee, coronavirus, COVID-19, delay, emergency meeting, meeting, pandemic, proposals, reopening, special meeting, students|
The Hawaii State Board of Education (BOE) has scheduled a special meeting Thursday to take action on a number of scenarios that would give educators more time to prepare before students return to class during the pandemic.
Evan Kumasaki2020-06-20T04:56:00-10:00June 20, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: Andrea Eshelman, capitol, catherine payne, CDC, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, coronavirus, COVID-19, DOH, Dwight Takeno, educators, health, HIOSH, legislature, Maggie Cox, parents, plans, reopen, reopening, representatives, safety, schools, SPED, survey, teachers, testimony|
The HSTA Negotiations Team meets for an hour and a half with top HIDOE officials Monday to begin detailed bargaining about reopening schools.
Evan Kumasaki2020-11-05T15:41:55-10:00June 6, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: catherine payne, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, coronavirus, COVID-19, DOE, Dwight Takeno, educators, feedback, guidance, Hawaii, plan, reopen, reopening, schools, testimony|
"This week, the Department of Education released the ‘Guidance for Reopening Schools.’ HSTA was not consulted and did not agree to these policies, even though teachers will be the ones most likely being forced to implement these policies,” HSTA President Corey Rosenlee said. “We have many questions and concerns.”
Evan Kumasaki2020-05-19T11:32:00-10:00May 19, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: Andrea Eshelman, Corey Rosenlee, event, friend of youth award, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, Logan Okita, Osa Tui, pono award, speeches, state of our union, virtual, webinar, Wilbert Holck, Zoom|
More than 1,300 HSTA members logged on to view their first-ever State of Our Union Saturday morning, which featured streamed video reports from committee chairs and motivating remote speeches from national and state association leaders as well as the awarding of two important awards.
