Jill Meinecke2025-04-24T11:29:43-10:00April 24, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Employee Housing Survey, HIDOE, high housing costs, Hilo, homeownership, Honolulu, Mililani, Teacher housing, West Oahu, Windward Oahu, workforce housing|
The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education released the results of its Employee Housing Survey administered last April, revealing that housing is a significant challenge for public school employees.
Jill Meinecke2025-04-15T15:47:16-10:00April 15, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Channa Uyetake, FOY, friend of youth award, Hawaiʻi Island, HCR Committee, Hilo, HSTA Convention, human and civil rights committee, jodi kunimitsu, kalo, Kua O Ka Lā Public Charter School, Mahina Oha, Mālama Hāloa Hui Kuʻi Kalo o Puna, Nick Kālāmakani Francisco, Puna, taro|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association honored Puna educator Nick Kālāmakani Francisco with its 2025 Friend of Youth Award Saturday at HSTA’s 52nd annual State Convention.
Jill Meinecke2022-09-27T12:11:15-10:00September 27, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: cohort, field study, Global Learning Fellow, Hawaii Department of Education, Hawaii Island, HIDOE, Hilo, Hilo Intermediate, professional development, South Africa, The NEA Foundation|
Pualeilani Fernandez, a Hawaiian history teacher at Hilo Intermediate, was chosen to represent Hawaiʻi in the 2023 cohort of the NEA Foundation Global Learning Fellowship.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-09-24T20:29:27-10:00September 24, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: Aaron Kubo, East Hawaii, educators, Edwin Kagawa, Hilo, Hilo Chapter, HSTA, informational picket, Osa Tui, pickets, safety, teachers union|
Teachers from all around East Hawaii conducted informational picketing late Friday afternoon outside the State Office Building in Hilo, raising concerns about a lack of uniform health protocols in public schools.
Terri Inefuku2021-07-13T14:22:18-10:00July 13, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Aaron Kubo, Hilo, National Education Association, NEA director|
Hilo social studies teacher Aaron Kubo recently began serving as the Hawaii State Teacher Association’s NEA director, the union’s representative to the National Education Association. He brings a wide variety of experience in education, ethnic diversity and labor relations to this position.
Evan Kumasaki2019-09-27T08:28:00-10:00September 27, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: Department of Education, Hawaii Island, HIDOE, Hilo, HSTA, Keaau High School, listening session, salary, survey, teacher compensation, teacher pay|
“I advise every kid not to become a teacher, because it would be irresponsible for me to tell someone to get a four-year degree and not make ends meet,” Eric Hagiwara, a math, robotics, and programming teacher at Waiakea High, said.
