Help fill backpacks for Maui students in need of school supplies
Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association members on Oʻahu, please join HSTA and Kamehameha Schools to fill backpacks with school supplies for 3,000 public school students in Lāhainā.
HSTA coordinating multi-faceted support to Maui fire survivors
In the wake of deadly wildfires that destroyed Lahaina town and shook a community to its core, the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association’s staff and members are working together through a series of coordinated efforts to help teachers who’ve lost everything.
Maui teachers meet with president, first lady during Lahaina visit
The White House invited at least 15 public school teachers to Monday’s Lahaina Civic Center gathering to meet and speak with President Biden and the first lady in the aftermath of Maui's wildfires.
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.
Maui teacher houses displaced families after taking in 15 overnight
On the night deadly wildfires raged through Lāhainā Tuesday threatening other portions of west Maui, a teacher from Princess Nāhiʻenaʻena Elementary School took in 15 evacuees from various Kīhei neighborhoods, many of them teachers.
Maui teacher loses childhood home to wildfires
A 27-year veteran teacher on Maui lost her childhood home to the raging wildfires on Maui, leaving her and her family displaced like other educators who’ve been affected by the fires.