Jill Meinecke2023-05-17T17:20:30-10:00May 17, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Donovan Dela Cruz, Hawaii public schools, Justin Woodson, Keith Hayashi, Lincoln Elementary, Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, pre-K, pre-kindergarten, public preschool, Ready Keiki, Sylvia Luke|
Eleven new public pre-K classrooms across the state will open under budget and a year ahead of schedule under Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke’s Ready Keiki initiative, announced during a news conference Wednesday at Lincoln Elementary School on Oʻahu.
Jill Meinecke2023-02-01T09:48:18-10:00February 1, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: adminstrator, Brenna Hashimoto, Hawaii Board of Education, Hawaii House Education Committee, Hawaii Legislature, Jeanne Kapela, Jr., Justin Woodson, Laverne Moore, Lisa Marten, Office of Collective Bargaining, Osa Tui, public schools, teacher|
The Hawaiʻi State House of Education Committee advanced Tuesday a measure that would allow a nonvoting public school teacher member on the Hawaiʻi Board of Education.
Jill Meinecke2022-02-11T16:20:23-10:00February 11, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: AC, air conditioning, Corey Rosenlee, gov. david ige, HIDOE, House Education Committee, Jr., Justin Woodson, Keith Hayashi, Osa Tui, Randy Tanaka, Senate Education Committee|
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.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-09-10T17:14:58-10:00September 10, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: buses, Cedric Gates, distance learning, Hawaiian language immersion, Jeanne Kapela, Justin Woodson, kaiapuni, Keith Hayashi, Osa Tui, school buses, sites, testing|
The Hawaii State Department of Education’s plans for free COVID-19 testing at public schools statewide are eagerly awaited by students, staff, and parents, but at a legislative hearing this week, school officials did not answer key questions about when the program will be available at all schools.
Terri Inefuku2021-05-24T18:12:23-10:00April 29, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: air conditioning, coronavirus, COVID-19, federal stimulus, HB 613, House Education Committee, Justin Woodson, learning loss, michelle kidani, PPE, Senate Education Committee, workforce stabilization|
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.”
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-17T18:40:15-10:00February 17, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: Brian Hallet, budget, budget cuts, Cheri Nakamura, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, COVID-19, Della Au Bellati, DOE, Donna Mercado Kim, federal funds, Jeanne Kapela, Justin Woodson, lawmakers, layoffs, legislators, michelle kidani, pay cuts, positions, relief, schools, Senate, Senate Education Committee|
The schools superintendent faces increasing pressure from state lawmakers to rescind budget cuts and direct federal stimulus aid to keep school employees on the payroll and maintain their current levels of pay instead of implementing pay cuts, layoffs, or hiring tutors.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-13T17:54:51-10:00February 12, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: bills, Corey Rosenlee, cuts, funds, jobs, Justin Woodson, lawmakers, layoffs, legislature, michelle kidani, pay, proposals, school employees, stimulus|
State Senate and House leaders have introduced bills that direct the Hawaii Department of Education to use millions in federal stimulus funding to preserve educators’ jobs, contrary to a HIDOE plan to use nearly one-third of stimulus funds bound for the education department to hire outside tutors.
