Terri Inefuku2022-08-18T10:31:07-10:00October 8, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: annexation, controversial issues, critical race theory, discrimination, education, English standard schools, Hawaiian language immersion, HCR, human and civil rights committee, institutional racism, racial justice, racism, systemic racism, teachers|
As educators, we provide our students with the tools, information, and support they need to become strong, independent thinkers who are able to critically examine the world they live in, and understand past and present so they can build a better future. Manufactured attacks on critical race theory aim to dismantle ongoing efforts to provide an equitable education for all keiki.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-08-06T14:24:36-10:00August 6, 2021|Categories: COVID-19, News|Tags: BOE, distance learning, Donna Mercado Kim, hiring, Keith Hayashi, Kurt Fevella, learning, michelle kidani, options, Phyllis Unebasami, Senate, Senate COVID-19 committee, teachers, virtual|
State senators complained Thursday that the Hawaii State Department of Education did not have an adequate plan to scale up distance learning this school year and failed to adequately support teachers and principals during the coronavirus pandemic.
Jill Meinecke2021-07-03T12:11:07-10:00July 2, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: BOE, Brian Schatz, charter schools, christina kishimoto, Hawaii Board of Education, HSTA, Osa Tui, PBS Hawaii, PBS Insights, students, teachers|
The Hawaii Board of Education chair said Thursday the board will discuss distance learning options for next school year at its next meeting on July 15, just a little more than two weeks before most public school students are scheduled to return to class.
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.org2021-05-21T17:00:25-10:00May 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 [...]
cschubert2021-05-18T18:19:05-10:00May 18, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: grant, Hawaii State Federal Credit Union, investing in education, supplies, teachers|
The program allows classroom teachers in the Hawaii State Department of Education to obtain much-needed supplies, books, furniture, electronics, equipment and other basic necessities for their classrooms.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-04-23T14:37:30-10:00April 22, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: campaign, centennial, Hawaii Education Association, link, memories, questionnaire, stories, survey, teachers|
The Hawaii Education Association is asking people educated in Hawaii to fill out a questionnaire detailing how a teacher in their lives inspired them to do greater things.
Terri Inefuku2021-03-11T12:39:51-10:00March 11, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: donate, donations, flood, Haiku, help, Maui high, members, Rachael Denessen, teachers|
Maui High English teacher Rachael Denessen heated up her lunch at her Haiku home Monday and had just sat down to eat when floodwaters began surging up her driveway, flooding her home's first floor, sending many of its contents down a nearby stream, and damaging others beyond repair.
kkerr@hsta.org2021-03-03T18:34:29-10:00March 3, 2021|Categories: News|Tags: BOE, christina kishimoto, contract, educators, HGEA, HSTA, HSTA Board of Directors, oppose, opposition, superintendent, teachers, term, Unit 6|
An overwhelming number of people who submitted written testimony to the Hawaii Board of Education as of midday Wednesday asked the BOE not to renew the contract of Schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto.
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.
