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 Meinecke2022-01-28T17:09:30-10:00January 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.
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.
