Evan Kumasaki2020-05-13T14:25:00-10:00May 13, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: aid, capitol, congress, Corey Rosenlee, coronavirus, COVID-19, cuts, David Ige, federal assistance, pay cuts, proposal, reductions, representatives, Senate, state aid, trillion|
“There is no immediate need to consider pay cuts or furloughs. This is the last thing that anyone wants to do, and I’m hopeful that we will find ways to narrow the budget gap," Gov. David Ige said Tuesday.
Evan Kumasaki2020-05-13T11:29:00-10:00May 13, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: aid, capitol, congress, Corey Rosenlee, coronavirus, COVID-19, federal assistance, Nancy Pelosi, pay cuts, proposal, reductions, representatives, Senate, state aid, trillion|
Hawaii State Teachers Association President Corey Rosenelee said the plan will “ensure the U.S. supports the neediest in our society and will fund a trillion dollars to support state and local governments. If approved, this bill could give Hawaii enough funding to ensure we can avoid pay cuts for state employees, including teachers.”
Evan Kumasaki2020-05-12T12:17:00-10:00May 12, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: capitol, coronavirus, COVID-19, hearings, legislature, live stream, monitor, online, reconvenes, representatives, Senate, session reconvene, SPED, stream, teachers, testimony, watch, web|
More than 450 people — many of them teachers — sent in testimony urging lawmakers to stop any effort to cut state workers’ salaries, which would worsen the teacher shortage crisis as well as the state economy.
Evan Kumasaki2020-05-12T05:23:00-10:00May 12, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: capitol, coronavirus, COVID-19, hearings, legislature, live stream, monitor, online, reconvenes, representatives, Senate, session reconvene, stream, testimony, watch, web|
When the 2020 Legislative session reconvenes Monday, the Hawaii State Capitol will be secured and closed to the general public, but hearings and floor sessions will be broadcast and live-streamed.
Evan Kumasaki2022-10-01T11:24:42-10:00March 13, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: bill, compensation, compression, differentials, salaries, Senate, teachers|
Earlier in the day, teachers from Oahu and Maui delivered educator declarations signed by thousands of HSTA members across the state calling for higher pay for veterans and differentials for key shortage areas in special education, hard-to-staff schools and Hawaiian language immersion.
Evan Kumasaki2020-03-04T09:56:00-10:00March 4, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: bill, compression, differentials, HSTA, legislature, salary, Senate, teacher compensation|
"This is a great first step," said HSTA President Corey Rosenlee. "The bill is now going to move over to the House, where we’re going to continue to work with legislators to make sure that we find a way to fund teacher compensation, including things such as the differentials and compression."
Evan Kumasaki2020-02-28T09:41:00-10:00February 28, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: bill, committee, compression, differentials, HSTA, legislature, salary, Senate, step, teacher compensation, ways and means|
The Senate Ways and Means Committee passed SB2488, SD1 with amendments (11 ayes, 2 excused) Wednesday morning. Mahalo to all who submitted testimony on such short notice.
