Jill Meinecke2024-12-21T08:27:38-10:00December 20, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: National Education Association, NEA, President Joe Biden, social security, The Government Pension Offset, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, Windfall Elimination Provision|
The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to advance a bill to boost Social Security benefits for nearly 3 million Americans, including public school teachers and thousands of people in the islands.
Evan Kumasaki2024-11-19T10:17:27-10:00November 19, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: award, HSTA, NEA, nomination, S.T.A.C.Y. Award, STACY, teaching excellence|
Each year, a winner is chosen based on their ability to demonstrate leadership, dedication and passion in five categories: scholarship, teaching, advocacy, community, and youth.
Jalen Ashley2024-07-29T12:44:25-10:00July 29, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: 2024, conference, HSTA, NEA, SOY, teachers|
Public school educators can participate in a new online program at Windward Community College to learn about Hawaiian music, integrate it into their student lessons, and earn professional development credits that can boost their salaries.
cschubert2024-08-01T12:23:41-10:00July 24, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: 2024, election, Harris, HSTA, Kamala, Kamala Harris, NEA, Recoomends, vice president|
Public school educators can participate in a new online program at Windward Community College to learn about Hawaiian music, integrate it into their student lessons, and earn professional development credits that can boost their salaries.
Terri Inefuku2024-07-04T11:42:04-10:00July 4, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Aloha Caucus, National Education Association, NEA, NEA RA|
Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association Windward Chapter member Kana Naipo wants everyone, especially those outside Hawaiʻi, to know that aloha is more than just a greeting.
Jill Meinecke2024-03-03T14:05:23-10:00March 1, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Brian Schatz, cease-fire, ed case, Education International, Gaza, Hamas, HSTA, Israel, Jill Tokuda, Mazie Hirono, Middle East, National Education Association, NEA|
The National Education Association’s (NEA) Board of Directors Saturday renewed its call for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, adopting a call to action that reflects the organization’s hope for peace.
Jill Meinecke2024-07-04T13:25:21-10:00September 6, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: donations, fire relief checks, HSTA, Jr., Lahaina, maui wildfires, NEA, Osa Tui, teachers|
More than 240 people and organizations from 33 states across the country have donated in excess of $205,000 to the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association to help Maui teachers who’ve lost homes and classrooms to the Aug. 8 wildfires.
Terri Inefuku2023-07-26T15:53:29-10:00July 26, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: book bans, delegate, Florida, Jennifer Nakamoto, Joseph Nakamoto, Joyce Nakamura, National Education Association, NEA, NEA RA, Nicole Ehara, Orlando, Representative Assembly|
Two Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association members represented Hawaiʻi for the first time at the national level with special advisers at their side: their mothers.
Jill Meinecke2023-07-05T09:49:14-10:00July 5, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Anne Frank, book bans, Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Florida, Freedom to Learn rally, Hawaii educators, Jr., LGBTQ, NEA, NEA Representative Assembly, Orlando, Osa Tui, Sarah Tochiki, say gay|
Nearly 90 Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association members joined more than 3,000 educators in Orlando, Florida, to rally for honesty in education Wednesday morning.
Jill Meinecke2023-06-30T11:58:32-10:00June 30, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: affirmative action, Becky Pringle, college debt, LGBTQ, LGBTQ+ protections, loan debt, loan forgiveness, National Education Association, NEA, Supreme Court, The U.S. Supreme Court|
In two major rulings Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s college debt forgiveness plan and limited protections for the LGBTQ+ community, asserting the power of the nation’s highest court’s conservative majority.
