Jill Meinecke2025-09-18T15:58:05-10:00September 18, 2025|Categories: News|Tags: Hawaii State Department of Education, shortage differential, special education, special education teacher, SPED, SPED differential|
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.
Terri Inefuku2022-08-16T14:56:13-10:00February 3, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: special education, Special Education Committee, SPED, teachers, workload, workload analysis|
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.
Evan Kumasaki2020-06-20T11:11:00-10:00June 20, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: BOE, bonus, campaign, christina kishimoto, differential, differentials, extra pay, hard-to-staff, Hawaiian language immersion, maintain, school year, special education, SPED|
Shortage differentials that the Hawaii State Department of Education began in January for special education classroom teachers, Hawaiian language immersion educators and teachers at hard-to-staff schools will continue in school year 2020–21, after the department confirmed the eligibility criteria in a memo published this week.
Evan Kumasaki2020-06-20T04:56:00-10:00June 20, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: Andrea Eshelman, capitol, catherine payne, CDC, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, coronavirus, COVID-19, DOH, Dwight Takeno, educators, health, HIOSH, legislature, Maggie Cox, parents, plans, reopen, reopening, representatives, safety, schools, SPED, survey, teachers, testimony|
The HSTA Negotiations Team meets for an hour and a half with top HIDOE officials Monday to begin detailed bargaining about reopening schools.
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 Kumasaki2020-03-12T07:24:00-10:00March 12, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: bill, compression, differentials, funding, hard-to-staff, Hawaiian language immersion, House, salary, SB2488, SPED, teacher compensation, testimony|
The House Committee on Labor & Public Employment, along with the Committee on Lower & Higher Education, will hear SB2488, SD2 Relating to teacher compensation on Friday, March 13, at 2 p.m. at the Hawaii State Capitol, Room 309. Written and oral testimony will be accepted.
Evan Kumasaki2020-02-04T06:16:00-10:00February 4, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: bill, compression, differentials, funding, hard-to-staff, Hawaiian language immersion, SB2488, SPED, testimony|
We need testimony from teachers, counselors, and school librarians at DOE and public charter schools in support of SB 2488, Proposed SD1. Please take a few minutes to write and submit testimony!
Evan Kumasaki2020-01-31T12:08:00-10:00January 31, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: formula, funding, IEPs, special education per pupil allocation, SPED, SPPA|
The HSTA has reviewed the proposed changes to the way some SPED funds are distributed and has asked a number of questions, requested information and given feedback on our concerns with the proposed changes.
Evan Kumasaki2022-10-01T11:27:17-10:00December 6, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: BOE, Brian De Lima, Bruce Voss, campaign, catherine payne, christina kishimoto, Corey Rosenlee, differentials, hard-to-staff, Hawaiian language immersion, Julia Fernandez, Leilani Roberts, Leinaala Vedder, Osa Tui, special education, SPED|
DOE, BOE leaders commit to a multi-phased approach to help end the teacher shortage crisis.
