Lahaina school employees to receive monetary awards for strength, resilience

2024-08-19T16:26:31-10:00August 19, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , |

The Lahaina HERO Awards will provide financial awards to HIDOE employees who directly supported Lahaina students when the schools reopened for the 2023-24 school year, as well as for the Fall 2024 term.

Maui teachers call on Board of Education for more support 9 months after Lahaina wildfire

2024-05-23T20:29:49-10:00May 23, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

The Hawaiʻi Board of Education promised action Thursday after more than a dozen Maui teachers flew to Oʻahu to ask for more support following devastating wildfires last August.

HIDOE announces one-time CTE shortage differentials

2024-05-02T16:44:57-10:00May 2, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education Friday announced it will implement one-time shortage differentials for career technical education (CTE) teachers working in HIDOE schools during the 2023–2024 school year.

HIDOE to continue shortage differentials next school year

2020-06-20T11:11:00-10:00June 20, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Shortage differentials that the Hawaii State Department of Education began in January for special education classroom teachers, Hawaiian language immersion educators and teachers at hard-to-staff schools will continue in school year 2020–21, after the department confirmed the eligibility criteria in a memo published this week.

Increasing hard-to-staff bonuses would ease Hawaii’s teacher shortage crisis

2019-11-15T09:00:00-10:00November 15, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

The HSTA suggests significantly boosting the dollar amounts bonuses each year at locations plagued by a high percentage of unlicensed teachers, in geographically isolated complexes and where the combination of vacancies and emergency hires makes up more than 10 percent of the teaching force.

SpEd teachers say more prep time, pay would help ease special ed teacher shortage

2019-10-23T11:35:00-10:00October 23, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The National Council on Teacher Quality reports at least 35 of the major school districts across the country already offer SpEd teachers a financial bonus of some kind, ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 a year. Hawaii offers no pay differential for SpEd teachers.

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