Kona teachers meet with Tokuda to share immigration enforcement concerns

2025-05-14T13:07:45-10:00May 14, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

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.”

Nearly 100 Kona educators, allies protest to keep immigration agencies out of schools, homes

2025-03-14T11:18:51-10:00March 14, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

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.

Big Island Youth Summit empowers keiki to be changemakers

2025-03-10T15:21:41-10:00March 10, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Around 20 keiki grades 4-8 gathered Saturday at Ke Kula ‘O ‘Ehunuikaimalino in South Kona to learn how they can take action and create positive change in their communities.

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