Education K-12

...Students in Hawaii have few options when it comes to school choice....

...The recent images from Charlottesville, VA-marches by torchlight, Nazi salutes, armed militia, angry mobs engaged in violent confrontation-are scary for adults to encounter, let alone children....

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

...students and parents of Maui are being held hostage to bureaucratic bumbling that would make the keystone cops envious....

... DoE student absenteeism is caused by DoE teacher absenteeism ....

...Hawaii among states with lowest median scores on college admissions test, study finds....

...A dozen Micronesian students are headed to prestigious private schools this fall, thanks to Habele K-12 tuition scholarships....

The plan will be submitted following a 30-day opportunity for Governor David Ige to sign it.

HIDOE will commit $250,000 annually for four years using federal Impact Aid funds towards school Transition Center facility improvements, technology, furnishings and special events....

...Hawaii is one of only four states where over 30 percent of high school graduates who hope to join the Army cannot achieve an adequate score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test.... 

"The department has made every effort to find solutions to cooling our classrooms in ways that are not only cost-efficient but also energy efficient..."

...families continue to offer a strong foundation for Hawaiʻi’s children, according to the 2017 KIDS COUNT Data Book....

...DoE Priorities Reflect Teachers Union, HGEA Goals....

...Meals will be served at select locations Monday through Friday, except June 12 and July 4. Most schools will serve breakfast and lunch....

...provides supplemental awards “to school districts that agree to adopt weighted student funding combined with open enrollment systems that allow Federal, State, and local funds to follow students to the public school of their choice...."

...more opportunities for local high school students to use Maunakea Observatories for their innovative research projects....

...Hawaii continues to support only a few hundred children in public preschool....

"We should all be proud of these kids, who’ve been at it since 2011," explained regional newspaper publisher Lee Weber....

GEMS, as a program, has been a miserable failure, resulting primarily in a large wad of cash that is just sitting in the bank. That’s why our legislature got the bright idea to “use” it to prop up another miserable failure – the “Cool the Schools” initiative....

...Christina Kishimoto, Ph.D., signed a three-year contract and will start on August 1, 2017....

...then the HSTA's Governor's minions fired her....

...atheists Mitchell Kahle and Holly Huber sued the churches under Hawaii’s False Claims Act....

...The court will be hearing the Appeal THIS FRIDAY, and you are invited to sit in....

Ninety-eight percent of the nearly 8,000 members of HSTA who cast ballots across the state today voted to ratify a new four-year contract....

There are six silver medal schools and five bronze medal schools from Hawaii included in the 2017 rankings of U.S. News Best High Schools....

...Governor of Hawaii, David Ige, has officially proclaimed May 13th as Children of Fallen Patriots Day....

The 30-day public comment period begins today, Tuesday, April 18, and will run through Thursday, May 18, 2017....

...business and education partners including the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) and the Hawaii Carpenters Apprenticeship and Training Fund....

The famously traditional Island of Stone Money is sending top students to a high tech global robotics competition....

...this study appeared to be an outgrowth of a move by our teachers’ union....

Maybe the Hawaii DoE will stop suing disabled children now?

...College and Career Readiness Indicators Report (CCRI) for the Class of 2016....

...two bills are moving through the legislature on this subject....

“The Search Committee appreciates the forthright statements of a public that is unafraid to speak up and who is passionate about the education of our students...."

The "shall make sufficient sums available" language is used in one more place in our constitution. It's in Article XII, Section 1, relating to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands....

DBEDT is measuring dollars not taxpayers. One out-of-state owner of a shopping mall, golf course, or hotel equals 1000s of individual local homeowners....

“Recent developments led the Foundation to have deep concerns that one candidate may have an unfair advantage over other applicants."

...this policy likely would backfire and make all housing in the islands more expensive....

...Ige appointed Galera to the BOE in October 2016. Galera has also served as the chairperson for the Governor’s ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) Team since its inception in April 2016....

...What color is your golden parachute?....

 ...$9,450 a year more without spending a penny....

Maunakea Scholars is an innovative program designed to bring Hawaiʻi’s young, aspiring astronomers into the observatory community by competitively allocating observing time on Maunakea’s world-class telescopes....

...Randall Roth comments on two stories on the DoE investigation into education reform advocate John Sosa which ran on KHON Feb 6 and Feb 7....

...UHERO: ‘Discriminatory’ HSTA Property Tax Plan hits Renters Hardest....

to lobby for a constitutional amendment that will drastically increase property taxes....

The State kept 10% of the surcharge collected or $25.92 million – which is more than the Department of Taxation’s entire Fiscal Year 2016 operating budget of $24 million....

...an owner of an investment property in Honolulu worth less than half a million dollars can expect to see his (her) combined City and State property tax bill double....