Jill Meinecke2025-07-31T14:21:18-10:00July 31, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: ACLU, ACLU Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, ICE, immigration, immigration enforcement, Immigration guidance, Know Your Rights, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda|
Just days ahead of students returning to campuses and classrooms for the new school year, the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association co-hosted a second Know Your Rights: Immigration Enforcement session for educators.
Jill Meinecke2025-06-17T12:24:49-10:00June 17, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: CTE, CTE licenses, CTE shortage differential, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, HIDOE, shortage differentials|
The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE) announced that it will continue to pay shortage differentials for career and technical education (CTE) teachers who worked in HIDOE schools during the 2024–2025 school year.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-13T17:01:03-10:00May 13, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: APC, APC rep, arbitration, Association Policy Committee, collective bargaining agreement, grievance, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, HRS § 89-9(c), Justin Jansen, Office of Information Technology Services (OITS), UniServ director|
After a full arbitration hearing, the arbitrator sided with HSTA and upheld the grievance, filed by the Office of Information Technology Services (OITS), that asserted that the HIDOE must recognize the OITS Association Policy Committee (APC) under Article IV of the collective bargaining agreement.
Jill Meinecke2025-04-16T11:29:45-10:00April 15, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: 2025 HSTA STACY Award, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, Hawaiian Education Special Committee, Hawaiian immersion, Hawaiian language, HSTA Kauai Chapter, HSTA STACY Award, ʻAlohilani Rogers, Kapaʻa Elementary, Kapaʻa Middle, Kawaikini Public Charter School, NEA Foundation’s Horace Mann Award for Teaching Excellence, NEA Member Benefits Award, Stacy Nishina, WASC|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association’s STACY Award for Teaching Excellence recognizes a teacher who demonstrates leadership, dedication, and passion in five categories: scholarship, teaching, advocacy, community, and youth. This year’s recipient is Mālia ʻAlohilani Kuala Rogers, or as she prefers to be called, ʻAlohilani, a Hawaiian immersion and resource teacher at Kawaikini Public Charter School on Kauaʻi.
Jill Meinecke2025-03-14T14:46:17-10:00March 11, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Becky Pringle, DOGE, Elon Musk, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, HSTA President Osa Tui, Jr., NEA, President Donald Trump, Trump adminstration, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. DOE, U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda, US. Sen. Brian Schatz|
The U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday it would lay off nearly half its staff, as federal government agencies worked to meet President Donald Trump’s Thursday deadline for them to submit plans for a second round of mass layoffs.
Jill Meinecke2024-12-04T10:46:32-10:00December 4, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Adult Friends for Youth, Ann Mahi, Corey Rosenlee, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, high-risk youth, Judie Rosen, lifetime achievement award, Nānākuli-Waiʻanae Complex Area, Sid Rosen|
Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association Executive Director Ann Mahi received the nonprofit Adult Friends for Youth’s (AFY) 2024 lifetime achievement award Friday during its annual fundraiser in Waikīkī.
Jill Meinecke2024-04-11T17:15:46-10:00April 11, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Dana Shishido, Hawaiʻi Foundation for Educators, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, Outrigger Hospitality, Stacy Nishina, teacher externship program|
Five Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association members over spring break participated in the union’s revived teacher externship program, gaining valuable real-world experience to bring back to their classrooms.
Jill Meinecke2023-02-27T10:50:48-10:00February 22, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Audra Zook, Department of Accounting and General Services, Hawaiʻi Island, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, HIDOE, Hōlualoa Elementary, Logan Okita, West Hawaii|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association held a news conference Monday detailing persistent problems with mold, structural damage, termites, rats and other maintenance difficulties at Hōlualoa Elementary School on Hawaiʻi Island.
