Jill Meinecke2025-06-20T10:05:26-10:00June 20, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: CHIP, Hawaii Department of Education, ICE, immigration, Immigration Custom Enforcement, Medicaid, National Education Association, NEA, NPR, public schools, The Four Freedoms Fund|
Amid federal policies and actions aimed at threatening freedoms, undermining justice, and making critical funding cuts, the National Education Association (NEA) is calling on members and the greater community to push back.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-21T09:44:28-10:00May 21, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: ACLU Hawaii, Andrea Eshelman, Hawaiʻi Coalition for Immigrant Rights, HIDOE, ICE, ICE raids, immigration, Keith Hayashi, Osa Tui, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association partnered with U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda (D, Hawaiʻi), the ACLU Hawaiʻi, and the Hawai‘i Coalition for Immigrant Rights to present a virtual Know Your Rights for Educators: Immigration Enforcement session.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-14T13:06:01-10:00May 14, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Andrea Eshelman, HIBOE, HIDOE, ICE, immigration enforcement, Immigration guidance, Jill Tokuda, Keith Hayashi, Plyler v. DOE, Roy Takumi|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association is asking the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education to affirm that it won’t retaliate or discipline school employees who refuse to participate in immigration enforcement. The union also wants HIDOE to require administrators to be trained on immigration enforcement issues.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-14T13:07:45-10:00May 14, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Hawaii Board of Education, HIDOE, ICE, ICE raid, Immigration guidance, Kona Chapter, Konawaena Middle School, law enforcement guidance policy, President Donald Trump, U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda|
More than 40 people, most of them public school teachers, attended a talk-story event with U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda (D, Hawaiʻi) in Kona Saturday afternoon, organized by the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association to discuss immigration enforcement concerns. Afterwards, Tokuda called the meeting “heart-wrenching.”
Jill Meinecke2025-05-09T10:39:48-10:00May 8, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Donald Trump, HSTA Maui Chapter, ICE, J1 visa program, Jr., Kahului, non-immigrant visa, Osa Tui, Sen. Brian Schatz, Sen. Mazie Hirono, teacher appreciation week, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement|
‘The whole situation was really overwhelming and traumatic for all of us’ Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2025 A Maui teacher went public Thursday with the harrowing story of gun-toting federal agents waking her and about 10 public school teachers here on non-immigrant visas early Tuesday morning and detaining them for at least 45 minutes in a raid searching for a man who apparently hadn’t lived in the home for more than a year. The teacher is a U.S. citizen who requested anonymity to protect her identity and the names of her educator colleagues who suffered through what [...]
Jill Meinecke2025-03-28T13:47:41-10:00March 28, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: HIDOE, ICE, immigration, Keith Hayashi, law enforcement guidance policy, Lotus Notes|
The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education released a 10-page Law Enforcement Guidance Policy on Friday, March 21, one week after the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association asked the department for “clear and comprehensive guidance” for its members about federal immigration raids.
Jill Meinecke2025-03-14T14:19:28-10:00March 14, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Andrea Eshelman, Hawaiʻi Board of Education, Ho’oha‘aheo newsletter, ICE, Immigration guidance, Keith Hayashi, Konawaena Elementary, Sarah Milianta-Laffin, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement|
The teachers union told the schools superintendent Friday that educators across the state need clear direction on how to address fears about federal immigration enforcement involving public school students on and off campus.
Jill Meinecke2025-03-14T11:18:51-10:00March 14, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Donald Trump, Honaunau Elementary, HSTA, ICE, immigration, Kona Chapter, Konawaena Elementary, Trump adminstration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Waikōloa Elementary and Middle|
Nearly 100 educators, students, community members, and education allies gathered Thursday in Kona on Hawaiʻi Island to advocate to keep immigration agencies out of schools and support students who have already been detained from their homes and even from public schools.
