kkerr@hsta.org2021-03-02T09:50:00-10:00February 18, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: budget, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, cut, cuts, federal stimulus, funding, jobs, Kenneth Uemura, Lynn Fallin, reduction, special education, SPPA, wsf|
Most of the millions of dollars worth of sweeping job cuts and program reductions planned for public schools next fall will be restored, Hawaii State Department of Education officials informed the Board of Education Thursday. Board members also made shortage differential funding a priority for next school year and did not approve using federal stimulus funds to hire outside tutors.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-14T16:03:28-10:00February 12, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, BOE, bonus, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, cuts, differentials, discontinue, eliminate, hard-to-staff, Hawaiian language immersion, pay, shortage, special education, vacancies|
The superintendent’s memo is misleading. While she indicates that the shortage differential program was a pilot, this is not the case. These differentials were enacted and approved by the Board of Education based on Kishimoto's request on Dec. 5, 2019.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-13T17:54:51-10:00February 12, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: bills, Corey Rosenlee, cuts, funds, jobs, Justin Woodson, lawmakers, layoffs, legislature, michelle kidani, pay, proposals, school employees, stimulus|
State Senate and House leaders have introduced bills that direct the Hawaii Department of Education to use millions in federal stimulus funding to preserve educators’ jobs, contrary to a HIDOE plan to use nearly one-third of stimulus funds bound for the education department to hire outside tutors.
Evan Kumasaki2021-02-05T01:31:39-10:00January 22, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, budget, cuts, Department of Education, furloughs, gov. david ige, legislature, operating budget, pay cuts, reduction, testimony|
While the governor's restoration of $123 million in school cuts is an improvement, the Hawaii Department of Education still faces roughly $140 million in cuts with hundreds of potential layoffs, the Hawaii State Teachers Association’s president said.
Evan Kumasaki2021-01-20T10:37:00-10:00January 20, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: budget, budget cuts, Colleen Hanabusa, Corey Rosenlee, cuts, David Ige, federal law, layoffs, prohibits, stimulus|
Congress prohibited budget cuts to public education in Hawaii in its multibillion-dollar pandemic stimulus bills, making illegal the governor and school superintendent’s plans to slash millions from public school budgets next year and lay off more than 1,000 school employees, the Hawaii State Teachers Associated revealed at a news conference Tuesday.
Evan Kumasaki2021-01-20T07:29:00-10:00January 20, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, budget, Corey Rosenlee, cuts, Department of Education, federal funding, furloughs, legislature, operating budget, pay cuts, testimony|
The Hawaii State Teachers Association strongly urges the Hawaii State Board of Education to delay approving the Hawaii State Department of Education’s stimulus funds plan. If passed, the HIDOE plan will violate recently passed federal law, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (H.R. 133), hurt relations with the state Legislature, and cause long-term, lasting damage to Hawaii’s keiki and their teachers.
Evan Kumasaki2021-01-18T06:35:00-10:00January 18, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, budget, cuts, Department of Education, furloughs, legislature, operating budget, pay cuts, testimony|
We want to inform board members not only about the impacts budget reductions and proposed position cuts will have on our teachers and students, but that federal funds should not be used to hire private tutors while the state may fire more than 1,000 qualified teachers and other public school staff.
Evan Kumasaki2021-01-16T13:43:00-10:00January 16, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: assistance, budget, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, COVID-19, cuts, federal, job losses, lawmakers, legislature, losses, programs, reductions, relief package|
For the first time Friday, the Hawaii State Department of Education released school-by-school effects of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of budget reductions the governor has directed public schools to endure next school year, resulting in a range of 1,000 to 1,500 job losses, at least half which would affect teachers.
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.
Evan Kumasaki2020-12-17T10:17:00-10:00December 17, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, budget, cuts, Department of Education, furloughs, legislature, operating budget, pay cuts, testimony|
Nico Friedman, a teacher at Kealakehe High School on Hawaii Island, submitted public written testimony to the Hawaii State Board of Education.
