Jill Meinecke2023-11-06T12:06:48-10:00November 6, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Ashley Olson, Dr. Jill Biden, first lady Jill Biden, HSTA Board of Directors, HSTA Maui Chapter, Jr., Lahaina wildfires, Mike Landes, Osa Tui, President Joe Biden|
For the second time since wildfires struck Maui in early August, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden spent part of her Saturday on a Zoom call with the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association Board of Directors to offer her love and support to educators dealing with the disaster’s aftermath.
Jill Meinecke2023-09-01T06:25:55-10:00August 31, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Hawaii Department of Education, HIDOE, Jr., Kahului, Keith Hayashi, King Kamehameha III Elementary, Lahaina, Lahaina Intermediate, Lāhaināluna Complex, Lahainaluna High School, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, maui wildfires, Mike Landes, Osa Tui|
Frustrated Maui families told Hawaiʻi State Department of Education leaders in public meetings Wednesday that they’re frustrated by a lack of communication from the department, and they’re overwhelmingly opposed to busing their students to Central or South Maui daily to other campuses following fatal wildfires earlier this month.
Jill Meinecke2023-08-26T11:52:29-10:00August 26, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Ashley Olson, Board meeting, Dr. Jill Biden, first lady, HSTA Board of Directors, Jr., Lahainaluna High School, maui wildfires, Mike Landes, Osa Tui|
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden told the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association Board of Directors Saturday morning, “We are a family as colleagues. We hold on to one another,” during an emotional seven-minute Zoom call from Air Force One.
Jill Meinecke2023-08-25T14:26:43-10:00August 25, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Ashley Olson, Evelyn Ibonia, Kihei Elementary, Lahaina, Lahainaluna High School, Lisa Morrison, Maui, Maui chapter, maui wildfires, Mike Landes|
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.
Jill Meinecke2023-08-23T10:53:09-10:00August 23, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: BOE, first lady Jill Biden, HIDOE, Jr., Keith Hayashi, King Kamehameha III Elementary, Lahaina, Lāhainā Intermediate School, Lahainaluna High, Maui chapter, maui wildfires, Mike Landes, Osa Tui, President Biden, testimony|
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.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-03-04T17:01:39-10:00March 4, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: appointment, board, Board of Education, BOE, catherine payne, christina kishimoto, committee, contract, Derek Minakami, Human Resources, Mike Landes, reappointed, Rebecca Hadley-Schlosser|
After receiving an overwhelming amount of written and oral testimony critical of the leadership of Hawaii’s controversial state schools superintendent Christina Kishimoto, the Hawaii Board of Education’s Human Resources Committee postponed a vote to consider whether to approve her new contract.
Evan Kumasaki2020-11-05T15:41:57-10:00June 4, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: benefits, contract, cutbacks, employees, journalists, layoffs, Maui News, Mike Landes, Negotiations, news, Ogden, Ogden Newspapers, Raise, reporters, severance|
The Maui News employees at the newspaper are in the middle of difficult contract negotiations with Ogden Newspapers. The Wheeling, West Virginia-based corporate owner has not agreed to raise the salaries of Maui News for workers in more than a decade.
