Terri Inefuku2022-03-29T16:00:14-10:00March 29, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: bill, hawaii state legislature, Hawaiian immersion, House, menstrual equality, resolution, salary compression, SB2819, SB2820, SB2821, Senate, shortage differentials, special education, testimony, written testimony|
This Friday, April 1, the state House Finance Committee will hear bills that are important to ensure the state can attract and retain experienced educators and ease the teacher shortage crisis.
Jill Meinecke2022-03-18T08:50:09-10:00March 17, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: 21 hours, Board of Education, collective bargaining, compression, Department of Education, hard-to-staff, Hawaii House Education Committee, Hawaiian immersion, Jr., Leeward Chapter, Osa Tui, professional development, shortage differentials, special education, teacher pay|
Measures that would pay teachers based on their years of service, bring permanent funding for shortage differentials, and restore funding for job-embedded educator professional development passed the state House Education Committee with no objections or reservations Thursday, following their approval by the full Senate earlier this month.
Jill Meinecke2022-02-18T13:37:29-10:00February 18, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: Gov. Ige, hard-to-staff, Hawaiian immersion, HIDOE, Jr., Osa Tui, salary compression, Senate Ways and Means Committee, shortage differentials, special education, State of Hawaii|
The Senate Ways and Means Committee Friday approved two measures aimed at paying teachers for their years of service and continuing shortage differentials. The bills passed with no objections made by senators on the powerful money panel and they have already been unanimously approved by the Senate Education Committee.
Terri Inefuku2022-08-16T14:56:13-10:00February 3, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: special education, Special Education Committee, SPED, teachers, workload, workload analysis|
Jill Meinecke2022-01-28T17:09:30-10:00January 28, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, hard-to-staff, Hawaiian immersion, HIDOE, HSTA, Osa Tui Jr, Senate Education Commi, shortage differentials, special education, testimony, written testimony|
The state Senate Education Committee gave its unanimous approval to a bill Friday that would continue funding shortage differential payments to special education and Hawaiian language immersion teachers as well as those who teach in geographically remote and hard-to-staff schools.
Jill Meinecke2021-12-10T19:09:05-10:00December 10, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: benefit, donate, Elementary students, elementary teachers, Hawaii DOE, special education, STEM, students, Waipahu Elementary School, waipahu high school, Waipahu Intermediate School|
Started as a project-based learning activity for Angie Fujimoto’s fully self-contained (FSC) special education class at Waipahu Elementary, Snack Shack sells a variety of food and beverages to students, with proceeds benefiting the school.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-05-21T17:00:25-10:00May 21, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: aid, board, Board of Education, BOE, bonuses, Bruce Voss, catherine payne, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, differentials, federal pandemic, funding, Jeanne Kapela, lawmakers, payments, shortage differentials, special education, teachers|
HIDOE is using the differentials to recruit, retain teachers Posted: May 21, 2021 Board of Education leaders voiced strong support Thursday for continuing teacher shortage differentials next school year and the Hawaii State Department of Education is still touting them in recruitment and retention materials even as the department works to find exactly how it will pay for them. Bruce Voss, who chairs the BOE’s Finance and Infrastructure Committee, said Thursday that the budget passed by lawmakers awaiting the governor’s signature or veto did not fund “the $32.5 million teacher differential that this board approved [...]
Terri Inefuku2021-04-21T16:26:21-10:00April 19, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: access, disabilities, Farrington High School, HB 1291, pono award, Sean Witwer, special education, SPEDucator Fellowship, State Scholars program, students, University of Hawaii, youtube|
Sean Witwer, a special education math teacher at Farrington High School, was selected as our 2021 Pono Award winner for his passion and advocacy to expand learning opportunities for special education students.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-03-02T09:50:00-10:00February 18, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: budget, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, cut, cuts, federal stimulus, funding, jobs, Kenneth Uemura, Lynn Fallin, reduction, special education, SPPA, wsf|
Most of the millions of dollars worth of sweeping job cuts and program reductions planned for public schools next fall will be restored, Hawaii State Department of Education officials informed the Board of Education Thursday. Board members also made shortage differential funding a priority for next school year and did not approve using federal stimulus funds to hire outside tutors.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-18T21:37:06-10:00February 18, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: bonuses, Corey Rosenlee, differentials, Eric Seitz, hard-to-staff, Hawaiian language immersion, Osa Tui, pay, shortage, special education, SPED, teachers, vacancies, Wilbert Holck|
The Hawaii Board of Education Thursday afternoon voted overwhelmingly to continue paying shortage differentials to public school teachers across the state, directing Schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto to rescind her memo by the close of business Friday that would have ended the $3,000 to $10,000 payments to teachers in areas faced with chronic vacancies.
