Education K-12

Graduation dates begin in May 18 with the ceremonies for Pahoa on Hawaii Island....

...residents in Hawaii took a dim view of their own schools, with only 46% ranking them as excellent or good....

Participation in a robust summer learning program substantially reduces the achievement gap....

The 2008 Legislature amended the Auditor’s governing statute to require follow-up reporting on recommendations made in various audit reports....

"...the EES is a work in progress, and teachers feel that more needs to be done so that the EES can help improve the practice of teaching...." -- Wil Okabe, HSTA

...atheists are once again falsely accusing the two churches, One Love Ministries and Calvary Chapel Central Oahu, of defrauding the government even though the court dismissed their claims earlier this year....

"Let's hope the legislative carping isn't a sign that teachers are trying to worm out of evaluations they agreed to in order to get pay raises, just as they once before reneged on drug tests...."

In this policy report, the Annie E. Casey Foundation explores the intersection of kids, race and opportunity....

Hawaii’s public schools can be a model for the nation, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan...

...highlighting education proposals, spending, and reforms....

Working in secret and overflowing with liberals....

Since his call for transparency, McDermott says the secrecy has gotten worse....

...Rep. Bob McDermott has asked the Alabama State Bar Disciplinary Commission to investigate the Southern Poverty Law Center’s top administrators....

Students in grades 3-8 and 11 at 91 schools statewide will participate in the field test of the new Smarter Balanced assessments....

The Hawaii State Department of Education (DOE) is receiving high praise from the U.S. Department of Education....

...Executive Office on Early Learning Director GG Weisenfeld was joined by state legislators, preschoolers, community groups and business representatives....

... McDermott says the payment of "stipends" to Hawaii teachers, for delivering SPLC's version of "Tolerance Training" breaks the law ....

...to continue efforts to turn around their persistently lowest-achieving schools....

More than 120 Makua (parents), kapuna (grandparents) and aunties and uncles on the rural island of Molokai joined together at the Kalanianaole Hall to hear the truth about Pono Choices....

The Obama Administration has incentivized states to accept national education standards—called Common Core—with billions in federal grants and waivers from the onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind....

...Southern Poverty Law Center will pay teachers $250 to attend the training....

Apparently, many state lawmakers aren’t interested in the numbers. They say teachers and students should spend even less time in the classroom, and the superintendent should make more money....

This morning, the DOE announced it has selected Chevron Energy Solutions to help lead implementation of the five-year sustainable energy program, to be called Ka Hei....

Many education experts have concluded that beginning a child's formal education too early may actually result in burnout and poor scholastic performance later....

...like Pono Choices, there is a disproportionate focus on normalizing homosexuality....

Professional development programs in the field of education have very little scientific support....

Hawaii's ranking went from #14 to #21. This drop had more to do with the aggressive changes made in other states than with any steps backward in Hawaii....

...Abercrombie today announced the release of more than $62.4 million for capital improvement projects (CIP) that will improve various Hawaii Department of Education (DOE) facilities....

The Board spent nearly one year working with stakeholders to craft policy revisions....

Flashback: Senate Ways and Means Chairman David Ige rained rhetorical bombs on the Department of Education for what he called a "Cadillac" system to evaluate teacher performance....

Same sex marriage opens a Pandora Box of activist pressure on our schools....

I am 28 years old and have been waiting years to get up enough courage to report a teacher for sexually abusing me for years....

Any change, as the bill proposes, would require a change to the current collective bargaining agreement with the HSTA, which runs through 2017....

...McDermott, who enrolled his eight children in Hawaii’s public schools, doesn’t want his 11-year-old son exposed to a controversial taxpayer-funded sex education program....

Board of Education (BOE) Hearing Tuesday, Feb 4th, 2014, 1:30 PM....

...the suspect's mother describes the revolving door of mental health facilities and half-way houses through which her son has passed in the last year....

...the state has seen an overall improvement in proficiency levels with 79% of fourth graders reading below proficiency in 2003 compared to 70% in 2013....

...Lisa Stevens wasn’t satisfied with her child’s school. Then she heard about charter schools and discovered she could get a group of people together and start one....

Students, parents, teachers and community leaders across Hawaii will rally this week in support of school choice at 30 “School Choice Week” events across the Aloha State....

The bill also discontinues the requirements for the minimum number of student instructional hours effective at the end of the 2014-2015 school year....

The event, called "Better Choices - Better Schools," was intended to raise awareness about how expanding educational choice can help America prosper....

Pono Choices offers little to no information on sexual harassment, Sexually Transmitted Infections, their symptoms and consequences or single parenthood....

HSLDA advocates in state legislatures, at the invitation of state homeschool organizations....

...Charge against John Doe, a maintenance supervisor employed by the Department of Education....

Learn more about the DOE's budget, including budget breakdown and cycle, supplemental requests, per-pupil funding and more....

The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii will kick off National School Choice Week in the state with nationally renowned speaker Michael S. Medved on January 21....