kkerr@hsta.org2021-08-06T14:24:36-10:00August 6, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: BOE, distance learning, Donna Mercado Kim, hiring, Keith Hayashi, Kurt Fevella, learning, michelle kidani, options, Phyllis Unebasami, Senate, Senate COVID-19 committee, teachers, virtual|
State senators complained Thursday that the Hawaii State Department of Education did not have an adequate plan to scale up distance learning this school year and failed to adequately support teachers and principals during the coronavirus pandemic.
Evan Kumasaki2020-11-05T15:57:07-10:00October 10, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: christina kishimoto, coronavirus, COVID-19, DOH, Donovan Dela Cruz, health department, Kurt Fevella, metrics, Phyllis Unebesami, reopening, schools, standards. CDC|
After the Hawaii State Department of Health’s school reopening metrics came under intense criticism because, among other things, they were as much as 10 times less stringent than federal metrics, the state epidemiologist told state senators Friday that her department is “looking at coming up with a revised draft of the thresholds.”
Evan Kumasaki2020-11-05T15:47:20-10:00August 20, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: cases, christina kishimoto, coronavirus, COVID-19, disclose, Donna Kim, Donovan Dela Cruz, Kurt Fevella, michelle kidani, PPE, questions, reopening, Ryker Wada, schools, Senate, senators, state auditor, superintendent, telework|
During a Senate Special Committee on COVID-19 briefing Wednesday, state senators pressed Schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto about why more teachers aren’t allowed to telework when students are learning from home, and why educators are spending their own money for protective gear.
