Jill Meinecke2025-02-14T08:09:23-10:00February 14, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: ESEA, HIDOE, IDEA, Immigration guidance, Linda McMahon, National Education Association, Trump Administration, U.S. Dept. of Education|
Our members across Hawaiʻi have told us they are deeply concerned about potentially sweeping changes to educational policies and budgets being implemented by the Trump administration, including an attempt to dismantle the 46-year-old U.S. Department of Education.
cschubert2025-02-13T21:03:04-10:00February 13, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Apologizes, classification, confused, confusion, email, forms, HIDOE, HSTA, Status, teachers|
Many teachers received Personnel Form 16Bs from HIDOE this week due to increased interest in reclassification after Teacher Institute Day. HIDOE clarified that the emails were proactive but may have included outdated forms, and teachers needing updates should contact teacher.reclassification@k12.hi.us.
Jill Meinecke2025-01-29T15:29:22-10:00January 29, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: HIDOE, Kalihi Uka Elementary, Keith Hayashi, Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, Milken Educator, Milken Educator Award, Milken Family Foundation|
Kalihi Uka Elementary kindergarten teacher Kristy Inamasu became the latest recipient of the prestigious Milken Educator Award on Tuesday at a surprise assembly with the entire school.
Jill Meinecke2025-01-06T15:02:57-10:00January 6, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Gov. Josh Green, HIDOE, King Kamehameha III Elementary, King Kamehameha III Elementary at Pulelehua, Lahaina, Lahaina wildfires, Maui, maui wildfires|
The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE) released a report Friday summarizing feedback from the school and local community about the rebuilding plan for the historic King Kamehameha III Elementary School, which was destroyed in the August 2023 Lahaina wildfires.
Jill Meinecke2024-12-17T16:36:15-10:00December 17, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Bargaining Unit 05, charter schools, Class VIII, HIDOE, learnsoft, negotiations committee, PDE3, reclassification|
The Hawai‘i State Teachers Association has secured a two-and-a-half month extension for teachers to fill out their reclassification paperwork following Hawai‘i State Department of Education delays in publishing its reclassification memo.
Jill Meinecke2024-12-13T09:41:32-10:00December 13, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Chapter 89, collective bargaining, HIDOE, HLRB|
The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE) has appealed a recent decision by the Hawaiʻi Labor Relations Board (HLRB) in favor of three teachers who brought a case related to the Fall 2022 repricing of Bargaining Unit 05 (BU 05) employees carried out by the department.
Jill Meinecke2024-11-22T10:14:42-10:00November 22, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Ann Mahi, Board of Education, HIBOE, HIDOE, Keith Hayashi, paycheck, paycheck delay, superintendent, teacher paychecks|
HSTA asked the Hawaiʻi Board of Education (BOE) Thursday to delay a raise for HIDOE Superintendent Keith Hayashi until hundreds of teachers affected by a paycheck delay are finally given what the department should’ve provided them months ago.
Jill Meinecke2024-11-21T10:13:58-10:00November 21, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Democrat, Department of Education, Donald Trump, election, election year, HIDOE, presidential election, Republican, White House|
A few days after the Nov. 5 General Election, we asked our members what they thought of the outcome of federal elections and we heard a variety of opinions.
Jill Meinecke2024-11-07T14:44:19-10:00November 7, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Andrea Eshelman, Bargaining Unit 05, BU 05, Chapter 89, collective bargaining, compression, Hawaiʻi Labor Relations Board, Hawaii State Department of Education, HIDOE, Jr., Osa Tui|
The Hawaiʻi Labor Relations Board (HLRB) last week ruled in favor of three teachers who brought a case related to the Fall 2022 repricing of Bargaining Unit 05 (BU 05) employees carried out by the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE).
cschubert2025-03-31T09:35:32-10:00September 18, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: delay, grievance, HIDOE, HSTA, paycheck, paychecks, settles|
The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education has agreed to conduct an audit and pay 500 teachers hundreds of dollars each for the financial harm they suffered because of paycheck delays, settling a grievance brought by the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association.
