Education K-12

...teachers may continue to plan trips and serve as chaperones with private tour companies....

Board approves timeline for Investigative Committee into the search for a new superintendent....

Hawaii Head Start enrolled 3,167 children during the 2014-2015 program year----about 10 percent of the state’s low-income children under age 5....

Charter-wide averages in achievement and growth in English Language Arts, math and science continue to be slightly below the statewide average. However, in college readiness measures charter schools outperform the state....

The top four teams are from Maryknoll, Pearl City, Roosevelt and Waiakea high schools....

...HSTA Asks BoE to Reject Plan....

...She does not support Common Core “period.”....

Completed Vaccination Consent Forms due to Schools by December 16....

There were two important tasks that drew on ancient Hawaiians’ understanding of space and time....

...The HSTA put Ige in office.  In return he is going to get rid of Matayoshi and the tests....

...2015 Science assessment by the National Assessment Governing Board and the National Center for Education Statistics....

...Public Hearings November 2 and 3, 2016....

...remediation rates (retaking high-school-level coursework) among students attending the University of Hawaii System are down 8 points in math and 6 points in English in three years....

...OHA Chair’s Charter School Gets Seven Times More Than All Other Charters Combined....

Galera replaces Jim Williams who resigned from the board last month....

...pushed to brink by the lack of urgency, inattention, and lethargic attitude of the named government officials....

Eighty-eight student robotic teams from Hawaii, California, China, and Taiwan participated in the fast-paced and fiercely competitive event....

Politically Connected Board Members....

"We will be taking a close look at our highest achieving schools and determine best practices that can be implemented in schools that need supports."

...51 percent of students tested met or exceeded the achievement standard in ELA, up three percentage points from the previous year....

...you have circumvented the Constitution and laws of our state by appointing your so-called “Governor’s ESSA team.”....

...gains on the Advanced Placement Program Exams over the year prior....

...job pressures, low pay and lack of mobility force many teachers to quit soon after they start....

At Ewa Beach Elementary School the crew installed 3,500 LED bulbs to increase energy efficiency....

A State-by-State Analysis of the Factors Influencing Teacher Supply, Demand, and Equity....

“Ask Me First” is a campaign to draw attention to the stories of women and children....

LifeSmarts is a free, national educational program that teaches students critical life skills in five key areas....

​​​​For the third consecutive year, the Hawaii State Board of Education (BOE) gave Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi an overall rating of 'Exceeds Expectations' in her annual job performance evaluation....

...they have no standards, they have no curriculum, they have had no public vetting or review process of any proposed new curriculum; but it's on the books and ready to go....

This year, Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) schools enrolled 169,268 students (down 719 from last year), and charter schools enrolled 10,634 (up 212 from last year)....

Just as in 2015, only 15% of the Hawaii 2016 graduating class met all four ACT College Readiness Benchmarks....

...the public has more opportunities to provide feedback at upcoming community meetings on Oahu, Kauai and Molokai....

...a new program called Education Savings Accounts has accomplished this elsewhere, and provided more educational options for families....

...proposed regulations are overly restrictive and harken back to No Child Left Behind's one-size-fits-all approach....

...dividing the project into an AC portion and an energy portion would greatly reduce the per-classroom cost....

...With school resuming session, many parents might be wondering whether they’ve selected the best school to secure their children’s academic success....

One hundred percent of Maryknoll High School seniors have been accepted to colleges....

... Schools could have been cooled already but DoE insiders had to reward crony contractors so the keiki will just have to suffer until next year ....

These meetings are part of the ongoing outreach effort in the updating of the Strategic Plan....

...in Hawaii, parents aren’t allowed to send their children to a different school unless they get a rare district exemption....

...why it's so expensive to cool Hawaii schools....

Andrew Santos, President of Admor HVAC, presented the State Department of Education an April 20 offer to Cool Schools at $5990 per classroom....

Each event is offered free of charge and will run from 5 to 7 p.m....

...the high bids will be used to make lower—but still exorbitant--second round bids look good by comparison....

Since March, the number of prequalified contractors has increased from 18 to 36 as HIDOE prepares to put projects back out to bid....

...HB 2569 (Act 176) which aims to expedite the goals of the Department of Education to cool Hawai‘i’s schools, reduce energy costs, meet Hawai‘i’s clean energy goals....

"Hawaii has…80 schools where 90% of teachers are absent ten days or more."

All public elementary, middle, and high schools in the Hawaiian Electric Companies' service territory are receiving new, intelligent, energy-monitoring devices and software....

...according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book....

...Hanabusa pointed out that the same issues underlying the disagreement over teacher travel and education trips are also involved in applying the gift provisions of the ethics code to legislators....