Jill Meinecke2025-11-25T15:13:09-10:00November 25, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Bargaining Unit 05, BU 05 experience, compression, Hawaiʻi Labor Relations Board, HIDOE, HLRB, out of state experience, public school teachers, repricing|
A state judge’s decision Tuesday to affirm a recent decision by the Hawaiʻi Labor Relations Board (HLRB) could clear the way for more than 2,200 public school teachers to be given service credit for teaching experience outside of Hawaiʻi, possibly raising their pay.
Jill Meinecke2025-11-25T11:13:45-10:00November 25, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Dive Into Education, educators, Hawaii Education Association, HIDOE, high school students, Joan Lewis, Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, recruitment and retention, shortage differentials, teacher shortage, University of Hawaii|
More than 230 high school students from a dozen public schools across the state gathered Friday for the third annual Dive Into Education event to learn more about the teaching profession from Hawai‘i educators.
Jill Meinecke2025-10-01T12:22:46-10:00October 1, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Bargaining Unit 05, charter school teachers, charter schools, HIDOE, Judy Ryan, PD, professional development credits, reclassification|
As a result of HSTA's advocacy, the HIDOE issued a memo that updates the procedures for teachers moving from charter schools into HIDOE positions and creates a one-time window through the end of 2025 for HIDOE teachers who formerly taught at Hawaiʻi charter schools to gain recognition for previous academic and professional development credits that can be used to reclassify and increase their pay.
Jill Meinecke2025-10-01T10:16:18-10:00October 1, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Class VIII, HIDOE, kaiapuni, microcredentials, Sheltered Instruction Qualification, SIQ, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Sheltered Instruction Qualification (SIQ) to provide educators more flexibility., TESOL|
The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE) just announced updates and new options for teachers to obtain the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Sheltered Instruction Qualification (SIQ) to provide educators more flexibility.
Jill Meinecke2025-09-22T14:13:31-10:00September 19, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: APC, APC rep, CBR, faculty representatives, Grievance rep, Hawaii Island, Hawaii State Department of Education, HIDOE, HSTA committees, Kaʻū-Keaʻau-Pāhoa Complex Area, Keaʻau High, Teacher of the Year|
Elise Hannigan, an English teacher at Keaʻau High on Hawaiʻi Island, received the state’s top teaching award from Gov. Josh Green and Schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi during a ceremony at Washington Place Friday afternoon.
Jill Meinecke2025-09-05T16:00:10-10:00September 5, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Andrea Eshelman, Hawaii Department of Education, Hawaii public schools, HIDOE, HSTA executive director, HSTA staff, Joan Lewis, Negotiations, Osa Tui, Pearl City High, School Level Leader|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association Board of Directors has appointed Andrea Eshelman as HSTA’s next executive director. She brings nearly three decades of experience as a public school teacher, union leader, manager and chief negotiator to her new position.
Jill Meinecke2025-08-28T09:52:44-10:00August 28, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: BU 05, compression, compression fix, Hawaiʻi Labor Relations Board, Hawaii Department of Education, HIDOE, HLRB, out of state experience, repricing|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association (HSTA) has been granted permission to intervene in a court appeal of a labor board decision concerning hundreds of its members who have not received credit for prior teaching experience.
Jill Meinecke2025-07-31T14:04:25-10:00July 31, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: 2023-2024 school year, back pay, HIDOE, HSTA, office of talent management, pay raise error, salary step|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association has secured a $291,881 settlement from the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE) to compensate 71 teachers who were improperly denied a step increase during the 2023–2024 school year.
Jill Meinecke2025-07-23T18:12:37-10:00July 14, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: congress, education funding, HIDOE, LGBTQ, Office of Management and Budget, Trump Administration, U.S. Department of Education|
Hawaiʻi joined more than 20 states on Monday to sue President Donald Trump’s administration over billions of dollars in frozen education funding for after-school care, summer programs and more.
Jill Meinecke2025-07-03T16:52:26-10:00July 3, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Ashley Olson, FEMA, HIDOE, HSTA Maui Chapter, Lahaina, Lahainaluna, maui wildfires, National Education Association, NEA, NEA RA|
Teacher delegates from across the country voted overwhelmingly Thursday at the National Education Association’s Representative Assembly (NEA RA) to approve a new business item proposed by a Maui teacher that would help educate the public about the critical role that public schools play in the recovery of communities affected by natural disasters.
