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.
Terri Inefuku2023-04-17T18:19:39-10:00April 17, 2023|Categories: Negotiations, News|Tags: bargaining, contract, Gov. Josh Green, governor, Hawaii State Department of Education, HSTA Negotiations Team, Keith Hayashi, Negotiations, pay, press conference, schools superintendent, settlement, superintendent, teacher pay, tentative agreement, wages|
Gov. Josh Green, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education Schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi, and Hawai‘i State Teachers Association President Osa Tui, Jr. stressed Monday the importance of a new contract that provides public school educators with stronger wages, and incentives to live and work in Hawaiʻi.
Jill Meinecke2023-01-06T15:58:24-10:00January 6, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: administrative holiday leave, Bargaining Unit 05, BU05, Department of Human Resources and Development, Gov. Josh Green, Keith Hayashi, Osa Tui, superintendent, teacher tax credit|
Hawaiʻi public schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi confirmed with the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association that all Bargaining Unit 05 members are not eligible for the holiday administrative leave offered by Gov. Josh Green.
Terri Inefuku2022-12-31T15:25:07-10:00December 16, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: administrative leave, Bargaining Unit 05, BU05, governor, holiday, Josh Green, Keith Hayashi, superintendent, vacation|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association has requested clarification on how public school educators can utilize the two additional days off recently announced by Gov. Josh Green.
Terri Inefuku2022-10-07T13:56:38-10:00October 7, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, BOE, compression, Department of Education, HIDOE, Keith Hayashi, pay raise, salary schedule, step, superintendent|
Schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi told the Board of Education Thursday that thousands of public and charter school teachers affected by salary compression — 72% of the teaching workforce – should start seeing increased pay in their Nov. 18 paychecks.
Jill Meinecke2022-05-20T10:14:20-10:00May 19, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: Caprice Young, Darrel Galera, Hawaii Board of Education, Hawaii Department of Education, interim superintendent, Keith Hayashi, Osa Tui, waipahu high school|
A split Hawaii Board of Education Thursday selected Interim Superintendent Keith Hayashi as the next superintendent of schools after a marathon, nearly 12-hour-long meeting during which each of the three finalist candidates made presentations and took questions from board members.
Jill Meinecke2022-04-29T17:17:56-10:00April 29, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: advisory group, Caprice Young, Darrel Galera, Hawaii Board of Education, Keith Hayashi, Sarah Tochiki, search committee, superintendent, superintendent finalists, Whitney Aragaki|
A former Hawaii Board of Education (BOE) member and longtime school administrator, the interim superintendent, and the national superintendent for a network of nonprofit charter schools are the three finalists for Hawaii schools superintendent released Friday.
Jill Meinecke2022-04-06T14:42:17-10:00April 6, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: Dawn Ige, Dr. Tehani Corcoran, gov. david ige, interim superintendent, Jump Start, Kamehameha Schools, Keith Hayashi, Logan Okita, national board, National Board Certification, National Board Certified Teachers, NBCT, NBCT 2021, NBCT Ceremony, virtual celebration|
The Hawaii State Teachers Association, the Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE), and Kamehameha Schools held a ceremony Friday to celebrate dozens of teachers statewide who earned or recertified their National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification in 2021.
Jill Meinecke2022-02-22T16:36:17-10:00February 22, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: 2022 Legislative session, 21 hours, gov. david ige, hawaii state legislature, job-embedded professional development, Jr., Keith Hayashi, Osa Tui, PD, professional development, Senate Ways and Means Committee|
The Senate Ways and Means Committee Monday approved Senate Bill 3209 SD1 that would restore educators’ 21 hours of job-embedded professional development, which was removed from the contract last year due to budget cuts, resulting in a 1.5% pay reduction for teachers.
Jill Meinecke2022-02-15T12:02:03-10:00February 15, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: funding, Gov. Ige, HIDOE, Jr., Keith Hayashi, Osa Tui, school funding, Senate Education Committee, weighted student formula, Wendy Nickl|
Small neighbor island schools would benefit from the proposal Posted: February 15, 2022 The state Senate Education Committee approved a measure to appropriate more funding for remote and small Hawaii schools at its hearing on the measure Monday. Currently, the Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) uses a Weighted Student Formula (WSF) to distribute funds for school budgets based on the type of school (elementary, middle, high) along with a base amount for each pupil. Additional funding is aligned with different student needs and characteristics including gifted and talented, economic disadvantage, English learners, transiency, homeless, and [...]
