Jill Meinecke2025-07-31T14:21:18-10:00July 31, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: ACLU, ACLU Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education, ICE, immigration, immigration enforcement, Immigration guidance, Know Your Rights, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda|
Just days ahead of students returning to campuses and classrooms for the new school year, the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association co-hosted a second Know Your Rights: Immigration Enforcement session for educators.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-16T14:56:24-10:00May 15, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: ACLU Hawaii, Hawai‘i Coalition for Immigrant Rights, immigration, Immigration guidance, Jill Tokuda, Know Your Rights|
The Hawaʻii State Teachers Association is teaming 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 Tuesday, May 20.
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 Meinecke2025-03-14T14:19:28-10:00March 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 Meinecke2025-02-14T08:09:23-10:00February 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.
