Moanalua Middle teacher receives Milken Educator of Promise Award
During a ceremony amongst family, colleagues, and lawmakers, a Moanalua Middle 7th-grade history teacher was honored as the 2024 Hawaiʻi State Milken Educator of Promise.
Board demands details, communication over potential lapse of $465 million in school construction funds
Hawaiʻi Board of Education Chair Warren Haruki called the potential lapse of $465 million in school construction funds “a huge tragedy” Thursday, adding that he fears state lawmakers have lost confidence in the department.
HIDOE plans to open temporary Maui school after spring break
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to complete construction on a temporary site for King Kamehameha III Elementary at Pulelehua on Maui at the end of February.
HIDOE officials grilled over plan to relinquish funds for 150+ school projects
The state schools superintendent admitted to lawmakers Wednesday that he didn’t know until late November about his own department’s plan to allow $465 million in school construction funds to lapse, bringing more than 150 projects to a halt, even though officials from his department had been working on the proposal since March.
HSTA president calls broken school fire alarm systems statewide ‘despicable’
Hawaiʻi State Department of Education Deputy Superintendent of Operations Curt Otaguro said Thursday it’s “unacceptable” that 10% of the state’s public schools failed fire inspections last school year and 24 schools need repairs to their fire alarms systems.
Leilehua High teacher wins 2024 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year award
Jackie Freitas received the state’s top teaching award from Gov. Josh Green and Schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi during a ceremony at Washington Place Tuesday.
Tentative agreement would raise pay for educational assistants, vice principals
Salaries for nearly 3,000 educational assistants and vice principals in Hawai‘i public schools would increase under a tentative agreement announced Thursday that will help combat chronic staff shortages.
Maui parents to HIDOE: Communicate better, keep our kids in Lāhainā
Frustrated Maui families told Hawaiʻi State Department of Education leaders in public meetings Wednesday that they’re frustrated by a lack of communication from the department, and they’re overwhelmingly opposed to busing their students to Central or South Maui daily to other campuses following fatal wildfires earlier this month.
HSTA calls for keeping Lahaina students together, crisis counseling, better communications from HIDOE
The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education must do a better job of communicating with parents and educators, providing crisis counseling, establishing safe campuses, and keeping displaced Lahaina students and staff together, said HSTA President Osa Tui, Jr.
11 new public pre-K classrooms to open statewide this fall
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.