Jill Meinecke2025-09-18T15:40:40-10:00September 18, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Becky Pringle, cancel culture, Charlie Kirk, educator voice, Know Your Rights, National Education Association, NEA|
Across the country, more than three dozen educators and school staff have been removed from their jobs or sidelined because of allegations that they made mocking or disparaging remarks, often on personal social media channels, about conservative organizer Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last week in Utah.
cschubert2026-03-12T15:31:08-10:00August 26, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Jump Start, Kamehameha Schools, National Board Certification, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, NBCT, NEA|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association, in collaboration with Kamehameha Schools, offers candidate support sessions as a way to support candidates as they navigate their way through the complex process of National Board Certification.
Jill Meinecke2025-08-14T08:58:37-10:00August 14, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Costa Rica, field study, Global Learning Fellow, Global Learning Fellowship, NEA, The NEA Foundation|
Two Hawai‘i educators recently returned from an inspiring field study in Costa Rica as part of the NEA Foundation’s Global Learning Fellowship.
Jill Meinecke2026-06-18T10:41:38-10:00August 6, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Educators Employment Liability (EEL) insurance policy, EEL, EEL Program, National Education Association, NEA|
Jill Meinecke2025-07-17T16:37:34-10:00July 17, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Audra Zook, HSTA headquarters, HSTA leaders, HSTA leadership training, HSTA President, Jr., Kristin Hamada, National Education Association, NEA, organizing, Osa Tui, Robert Rodriguez, UniServ director|
Over 40 Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association chapter leaders gathered earlier this week at HSTA headquarters for a two-day immersive training on building union power for the 2025-26 school year.
Jill Meinecke2025-07-07T08:57:20-10:00July 7, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Ellison S. Onizuka Memorial Award, Hawaii Island, Hawaiian immersion, kaiapuni ʻōlelo, kaipuni, Ke Kula ‘O Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu Iki Public Charter School, National Education Association, Nāwahī, NEA, NEA Human and Civil Rights Awards|
Ke Kula ‘O Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu Iki Public Charter School on Hawaiʻi Island was honored Wednesday night at the National Education Associationʻs annual Human and Civil Rights Awards Dinner in Portland, Ore.
Jill Meinecke2025-07-03T16:52:26-10:00July 3, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Ashley Olson, FEMA, HIDOE, HSTA Maui Chapter, Lahaina, Lahainaluna, maui wildfires, National Education Association, NEA, NEA RA|
Teacher delegates from across the country voted overwhelmingly Thursday at the National Education Association’s Representative Assembly (NEA RA) to approve a new business item proposed by a Maui teacher that would help educate the public about the critical role that public schools play in the recovery of communities affected by natural disasters.
Jill Meinecke2025-06-20T10:05:26-10:00June 20, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: CHIP, Hawaii Department of Education, ICE, immigration, Immigration Custom Enforcement, Medicaid, National Education Association, NEA, NPR, public schools, The Four Freedoms Fund|
Amid federal policies and actions aimed at threatening freedoms, undermining justice, and making critical funding cuts, the National Education Association (NEA) is calling on members and the greater community to push back.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-22T11:25:18-10:00May 22, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Becky Pringle, education cuts, federal cuts, NEA, Osa Tui, Trump Administration, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. District Judge Myong Joun, U.S. Supreme Court|
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from firing thousands of employees at the U.S. Department of Education, ruling that the terminations were a thinly veiled effort to dismantle the entire department without congressional approval.
Jill Meinecke2025-05-20T15:14:50-10:00May 19, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: AE, Aspiring Educators, Joshua Kamalani, Jr., Kristin Hamada, National Education Association and Advisory Committee of Aspiring Educators (ACAE), NEA, Osa Tui, University of Hawaii|
Around 25 aspiring educators from university and community college programs across the state gathered at the Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association’s headquarters on Oʻahu late last month for an open house to learn the value of unionism.
