Education K-12

...The Strategic Plan, which was last updated in 2012, is a combined effort to further develop comprehensive strategies focused on three foundational goals of quality education: Student Success, Staff Success and Successful Systems of Support....

Representative Bob McDermott discusses the building of a new school for Ewa Beach with Kurt Fevella President at The Ewa Beach Lions Club....

...classes are available to eligible children at 19 public elementary schools....

We reviewed 28,561 U.S. public high schools; 17 Hawaii schools made our rankings....

...2016 graduation dates for 64 schools statewide including public charter schools....

Ige has appointed Darrel Galera as chairman of the Governor’s ESSA team....

...teacher unions are flat out against this because they do not want their members held accountable....

...Planned Parenthood Receives Overwhelming Support by Hawaii's Senators....

The appointments are subject to confirmation by the Senate....

School by school reports...

...“Sometimes you have to make waves to catch a wave,” said McDermott....

Hawaii is requesting a waiver from the US Dept. of Education....

...designing an assessment that can support a broader and culturally accurate definition of student success in Hawaii....

...The new standards are interwoven across disciplines, including connections to language arts and mathematics....

According to new DOE information the building of a $150 million high school planned for Kihei is not what is needed....

Lt Gov Duke Aiona delivers Hawaii Family Advocates legislative update February 12, 2016....

This is just the latest example of the Department of Education attempting to shortchange Hawaii’s special needs students....

Apparently GEMS is an attractive target for raiding because a 2014 bond issue raised $150 million for the program and little, if any, capital has been deployed to date....

A message from the Kam Schools CEO....

...Meanwhile, an HRC leader is busted for homosexual child molestation in Oregon....

A group using the name the Evacuator Group and the now-suspended Twitter handles @Ev4cuati0nSquad and @SwatTheW0rld has claimed responsibility for the threats....

By the year's end, the utility will need to collect $7,940,691.56 more to fulfill "revenue requirements" for GEMS....

Hawaii students, communities to hold over 60 events as part of nation's largest-ever celebration of school choice....

Comedian Tom Shillue, host of Red Eye on Fox News Channel....

West Oahu is currently drowning under exigent overcrowding....

"...students will learn core principles of science and will see the relevance of community initiatives, such as moving to solar energy, limiting waste, encouraging recycling and reducing water usage with low-flow toilets...."

Implementing K–12 programs in computer, engineering or biomedical science....

The 20th annual edition of Education Week’s Quality Counts....

“We are not doing enough” to educate Samoan students in math and science....

"the university could look to what Oyama said as an indication of what he would do once certified."

The State is breaking ground on a new high school in Kihei....

LifeSmarts is a consumer education program designed to teach students in grades 6-12 about personal finance, health and safety, the environment, technology, and consumer rights and responsibilities through online quizzes and in-person competitions....

Hawaii had the Sixth Lowest Rate of Youth Drug Overdose Death Rates, Rate has Doubled in Just Over a Decade....

Common Core is being redefined as social-emotional learning, which must come first in the learning hierarchy — with academics taking a backseat....

In Hawaii, single parents with two children pay about 64% of their income for infant child care, nearly the same as married couple families at the poverty line with two children....

The Every Student Succeeds Act passed the Senate by a margin of 85 – 12 and in the U.S. House by a vote of 359-64 in late November (this included every Democrat who voted in both the House and Senate)....

The bill will be introduced during the upcoming 2016 legislative session....

...held Dec. 12, 2015 at the Pearl City High School cafeteria, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m....

This year’s report measures state progress against a set of 32 policy goals....

"We ... examined a number of active charter schools whose financial data were similar to Hālau Lōkahi’s.'

...how high school graduates are prepared to meet the HIDOE’s Strategic Plan Goal that all students demonstrate they are on a path toward success in college, career and citizenship....

House and Senate proposals to rewrite No Child Left Behind are set to head into conference early next week....

Fundamental Change: Innovation in America's Schools under Race to the Top....

State CIP money is going to political cronies’ districts, not where it is really needed....

Hawaii has earned an overall grade of C- for school policy, down from a grade of C in 2000....

"We made significant changes to reduce the amount of testing in our schools this year," stated Superintendent Matayoshi....

...by the end of first grade, the achievement scores for both groups were again equal and by third grade the scores of children who participated in the pre-K program were lower than those who had not....

“Compared with NAEP, Smarter Balanced more directly measures what we expect our students to know and be able to do...."

...This annual report provides a snapshot of how schools are doing in achievement, growth, readiness and reducing the achievement gap....