Lawmakers give initial OK for more public school AC funding

2022-02-11T16:20:23-10:00February 11, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Bills that appropriate funds to install air conditioning units for public school classrooms that have not received air conditioning were approved by the state Senate Education Committee and House Education Committee in the last week.

Lawmakers will consider bills to fix salary compression, end salary class cap

2022-01-13T16:08:25-10:00January 13, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

With Hawaii expecting an improved economic outlook, leaders at the state Legislature plan on introducing proposals aimed at finally paying teachers for their years of experience, fixing salary compression.

Lawmakers approve $2,200 one-time teacher payments

2021-05-24T18:12:23-10:00April 29, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

HB613, CD2 appropriates $29.7 million in federal COVID-19 stimulus funds for the fiscal year that starts July 1 “for the purpose of educator workforce stabilization to retain teachers; provided that moneys appropriated shall be used for a one-time stabilization payment of $2,200 for each teacher.”

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