Jill Meinecke2026-03-04T14:21:15-10:00March 4, 2026|Categories: News|Tags: HSTA Board of Directors, ILWU Local 142, Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, Ready Keiki, Sylvia Luke, United Public Workers, UPW|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association Board of Directors, made up of elected educator volunteers from across the islands, on Saturday authorized the following supportive statement regarding Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke which asks the public to hold judgment until the state Attorney General’s investigation is complete.
Jill Meinecke2025-10-03T09:42:47-10:00September 29, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Connie Mitchell, Hawaii Foodbank, HSTA Board of Directors, HSTA HCR, HSTA Human and Civil Rights Committee, IHS, jodi kunimitsu, Kahauiki Village, Maʻi movement, Osa Tui|
Children and families at Kahauiki Village in Iwilei attended a “Good Neighbor Day” event Saturday afternoon, sponsored by members of the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association’s Human and Civil Rights Committee.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-02T09:24:45-10:00April 24, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: civil rights, DEI, diversity, equity, HSTA Board of Directors, HSTA committee, HSTA leaders, IDEA, inclusion, Mazie Hirono, Title 1, Trump adminstration, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono|
U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono told HSTA volunteer leaders Thursday that the Trump administration is mounting an “all-out assault on education, and itʻs something we need to fight back against.”
Jill Meinecke2023-11-06T12:06:48-10:00November 6, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Ashley Olson, Dr. Jill Biden, first lady Jill Biden, HSTA Board of Directors, HSTA Maui Chapter, Jr., Lahaina wildfires, Mike Landes, Osa Tui, President Joe Biden|
For the second time since wildfires struck Maui in early August, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden spent part of her Saturday on a Zoom call with the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association Board of Directors to offer her love and support to educators dealing with the disaster’s aftermath.
Jill Meinecke2023-08-26T11:52:29-10:00August 26, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Ashley Olson, Board meeting, Dr. Jill Biden, first lady, HSTA Board of Directors, Jr., Lahainaluna High School, maui wildfires, Mike Landes, Osa Tui|
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden told the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association Board of Directors Saturday morning, “We are a family as colleagues. We hold on to one another,” during an emotional seven-minute Zoom call from Air Force One.
Jill Meinecke2022-01-21T15:52:52-10:00January 21, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: BOE, Chair Catherine Payne, HIDOE, HSTA Board of Directors, Keith Hayashi, Lyla Berg, Red Hill, U.S. Navy, Water contamination|
The Hawaii Board of Education (BOE) stated Thursday that it will consider taking a position to call for the U.S. Navy to immediately empty fuel and fully close its Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage facility after drinking water at multiple Hawaii public schools was contaminated.
Terri Inefuku2021-07-30T16:22:02-10:00July 30, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: dues, freeze, Hawaii State Teachers Association, HSTA, HSTA Board of Directors, members|
HSTA Secretary-Treasurer Lisa Morrison said, "With the hardships members have endured recently and the fact that they are taking home smaller paychecks without the 21 hours of PD, we feel now is not the right time to ask our members to pay more.”
Terri Inefuku2021-05-23T20:39:49-10:00May 23, 2021|Categories: Negotiations, News|Tags: bargaining, contract, employer, HSTA, HSTA Board of Directors, Negotiations, negotiations committee, Negotiations Team, ratification, settlement, vote|
We have reached a tentative agreement with the employer, and your bargaining team, the HSTA Negotiations Committee, and the HSTA Board of Directors overwhelmingly recommend your support in a vote of YES to ratify the agreement.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-03-03T18:34:29-10:00March 3, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: BOE, christina kishimoto, contract, educators, HGEA, HSTA, HSTA Board of Directors, oppose, opposition, superintendent, teachers, term, Unit 6|
An overwhelming number of people who submitted written testimony to the Hawaii Board of Education as of midday Wednesday asked the BOE not to renew the contract of Schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto.
Terri Inefuku2021-03-03T16:07:32-10:00March 2, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, christina kishimoto, contract, Hawaii Board of Education, HSTA Board of Directors, renew, superintendent|
The HSTA Board of Directors voted unanimously to advocate that the Hawaii Board of Education not renew the employment contract of Dr. Christina Kishimoto for superintendent of the Department of Education. Her current contract expires July 31.
