Help your Maui colleagues affected by wildfires advocate for fire relief leave from the HIDOE

2024-05-07T10:22:50-10:00May 7, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

The HSTA Maui Chapter is organizing a petition asking HSTA members to say they are willing to support their colleagues who have been affected by the fires and would be willing to donate to a shared Fire Relief Leave Bank.

HIDOE plans to open temporary Maui school after spring break

2023-12-21T17:01:20-10:00December 21, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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.

Nānākuli High and Intermediate teacher will expand award-winning student sustainability program to Maui

2023-12-19T12:44:30-10:00December 19, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Nānākuli High and Intermediate's award-winning recycling program will expand to Maui, thanks to Kumu Michelle Pieper.

HSTA provides second and final fire relief checks to Maui members who lost homes in fires

2023-12-14T15:11:23-10:00December 14, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association will provide a second and final relief check of $2,665 in the next week to 92 members and HSTA-Retired members who cannot live in their primary residences on Maui because of damage or destruction by the Aug. 8 wildfires.

HSTA offers final round of aid for members who lost homes in Maui fires

2023-11-13T15:06:08-10:00November 13, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association will provide a second and final relief check to any member and any HSTA-Retired member who cannot live in their primary residence on Maui because of damage or destruction by the Maui wildfires.

Three Lahaina schools to reopen to students starting Oct. 16

2023-09-26T13:49:33-10:00September 26, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE) Tuesday announced reopening details for three Lahaina public schools, and said the federal government will build a new temporary school site after deadly wildfires in August shuttered the schools for nearly two months.

HSTA coordinating multi-faceted support to Maui fire survivors

2023-08-25T14:26:43-10:00August 25, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

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.

Administrative leave available as Maui schools reopen this week

2024-06-23T04:45:39-10:00August 15, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

To our educator ʻohana on Maui, your well-being is top of mind. Please know your colleagues across the state are working to support and advocate for you in your time of need.

Maui teacher houses displaced families after taking in 15 overnight

2023-08-13T12:22:03-10:00August 11, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , |

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.

At least 6 King Kamehameha III Elementary educators lost homes, classrooms

2023-08-16T15:41:53-10:00August 11, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

Mindi Cherry, a first-grade teacher at King Kamehameha III Elementary School in Lāhainā, is dealing with the overwhelming shock of losing both her family’s home and her classroom after wildfires ravaged the historic town Tuesday and Wednesday.

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