National survey finds Hawaiʻi’s SPED differential highest in the country

2025-09-18T15:58:05-10:00September 18, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

A national survey reveals that Hawaiʻi’s $10,000 shortage differential for special education teachers remains the highest in the country and has greatly reduced the number of unlicensed SPED teachers in the islands. 

HIDOE announces one-time CTE shortage differentials

2024-05-02T16:44:57-10:00May 2, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education Friday announced it will implement one-time shortage differentials for career technical education (CTE) teachers working in HIDOE schools during the 2023–2024 school year.

Millions worth of differentials make up first phase of plan to end teacher shortage crisis

2022-10-01T11:25:47-10:00December 5, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

The proposals to address compression, create shortage differentials for SpEd and Hawaiian language immersion educators and expand hard-to-staff bonuses are a positive step forward in the HSTA's five-year plan to end the statewide teacher shortage crisis.

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