Terri Inefuku2022-07-11T13:33:06-10:00July 8, 2022|Categories: News|Tags: bonuses, Bruce Voss, christina kishimoto, differentials, federal, pandemic, payments, relief, school year, shortage, shortage differentials, stimulus, superintendent, teachers|
Shortage differentials for classroom teachers in special education, hard-to-staff locations, and Hawaiian language immersion programs will continue through school year 2022–23, and the eligibility criteria remain the same as those that are currently in place for this school year.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-05-24T09:54:46-10:00May 24, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: bonuses, Bruce Voss, christina kishimoto, differentials, federal, pandemic, payments, relief, school year, shortage, shortage differentials, stimulus, superintendent, teachers|
Shortage differentials for classroom teachers in special education, hard-to-staff locations, and Hawaiian language immersion programs will continue through school year 2021-2022, state Schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto announced in a memo late Friday afternoon.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-14T16:04:27-10:00February 14, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: board, BOE, budgets, federal aid, proposal, SPPA, stimulus, testimony, tutors, weighted student formula, written testimony, wsf|
Join us in asking the Board of Education to prioritize restoring all cuts to the weighted student formula (WSF) and special education per-pupil allocation (SPPA), which would eliminate the need for layoffs of any HIDOE employees, including all teachers. HSTA will further ask HIDOE to follow the law by using federal stimulus funding to avoid future pay cuts.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-02-13T17:54:51-10:00February 12, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: bills, Corey Rosenlee, cuts, funds, jobs, Justin Woodson, lawmakers, layoffs, legislature, michelle kidani, pay, proposals, school employees, stimulus|
State Senate and House leaders have introduced bills that direct the Hawaii Department of Education to use millions in federal stimulus funding to preserve educators’ jobs, contrary to a HIDOE plan to use nearly one-third of stimulus funds bound for the education department to hire outside tutors.
Evan Kumasaki2021-02-05T01:27:31-10:00January 23, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Biran Hallet, BOE, budget, budget cuts, Colleen Hanabusa, congress, Corey Rosenlee, DOE, maintenance of effort, restrictions, schools, stimulus|
The Hawaii State Department of Education’s chief financial officer told the Board of Education Thursday that the teachers' union correctly described congressional restrictions on reducing public school budgets after the state accepted hundreds of millions of dollars in federal pandemic aid.
Evan Kumasaki2021-02-05T01:28:40-10:00January 22, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: Amanda Lacar, board, BOE, catherine payne, christina kishimoto, federal, firing, funds, HSTA, Julie Reyes Oda, Kenneth Uemura, layoffs, Maggie Cox, Osa Tui, plan, stimulus, tutor, tutoring|
The Hawaii Board of Education Thursday tabled a controversial Hawaii Department of Education proposal to use $53 million in federal pandemic stimulus funds to hire tutors for public school students as the department contemplates laying off hundreds of teachers, education assistants, and other staff.
Evan Kumasaki2021-01-20T10:37:00-10:00January 20, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: budget, budget cuts, Colleen Hanabusa, Corey Rosenlee, cuts, David Ige, federal law, layoffs, prohibits, stimulus|
Congress prohibited budget cuts to public education in Hawaii in its multibillion-dollar pandemic stimulus bills, making illegal the governor and school superintendent’s plans to slash millions from public school budgets next year and lay off more than 1,000 school employees, the Hawaii State Teachers Associated revealed at a news conference Tuesday.
Evan Kumasaki2020-12-22T07:25:00-10:00December 22, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: congress, coronavirus, COVID-19, federal aid, funding, pandemic, stimulus|
To fully understand the impacts this relief bill will have on Hawaii’s schools, we are moving our live stream Q&A session from today to Monday, Dec. 28, at 4 p.m. on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.
Evan Kumasaki2020-12-18T09:29:00-10:00December 18, 2020|Categories: News|Tags: congress, coronavirus, COVID-19, federal aid, funding, pandemic, stimulus|
Congressional leaders Thursday closed in on a $900 billion stimulus deal that includes more than $54 billion worth of aid for public schools, funds that Hawaii could use to stop or lessen the effects of furloughs scheduled to start in January and millions worth of public school cuts that could take effect next school year.
