Education K-12

​The College and Career Indicators Report​ (CCRI) released today by Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education....

... Gender is an opinion ....

...only two in five principals (41%) say they can express concern or critique DOE policies and practices without fear of reprisal, retaliation, or being unfairly evaluated....

"...the very discussion we are having now is illegal...." -- OHA Trustee Peter Apo January 14, 2015

...House bills will now move through Senate committees and Senate bills will move through House committees....

How did your Representative and Senator vote?

...monitoring report praises progress in Hawaii's public school system, from the implementation of high academic standards to supports provided to educators and students....

...For the first time, educators and parents will be able to compare the performance of students in multiple states based on common standards and assessments....

"We want to encourage parents to always be the ones that are responsible for what their kids are learning in the public school system," Hawaii Family Forum's Eva Andrade said....

...bills that might have negative impacts on families or communities....

...to be heard by the Committees this week....

...35 schools on Oahu and 15 schools on Kauai....

House Bill 1240 will bypass the House Committee on Education and is referred solely to the House Committee on Finance....

After spending two years to create a strategic path forward for Hawaiian Education....

Among 15-year-old students in the United States, 20.7 percent live in single-parent families....

...we pursue a comprehensive bullying prevention bill and legislation to make it easier for trans folks to get proper (sic) birth certificates in the spring legislative session....

There are 65 National School Choice Week events and counting in Hawaii....

"...the trends of the last decade will be prologue for a nation not at risk, but a nation in decline.…"

At that point—and hopefully sooner—all students should have transferred to other schools....

Top concerns include the state economy, education, the Hawaii Health Connector, oversight of the Public Utilities Commission in light of the Hawaiian Electric Industries/NextEra merger, and positively affecting the cost of living for Hawaii residents....

Students were given a letter to take home to their parents as a reminder ....

The 2015 edition of Education Week’s Quality Counts report—Preparing to Launch: Early Childhood’s Academic Countdown....

...reauthorization of the program must be accompanied by major reforms....

Study sheds new light on e-cigarette behaviors in teens as regulators consider curbing sales to minors....

...legislation to prohibit the federal government from “mandating, incentivizing or coercing” states to adopt the national education standards known as Common Core....

Grassroot President Keli’i Akina speaks with Darrel Galera (President) and Roberta Mayor (Board Member) of the Hawaii Center for Instructional Leadership about their work to reform education in Hawaii....

Notably, five of the eleven highest performing public high schools in the state and two of the four highest-performing middle schools, as measured by Strive HI, are charter schools....

The BOE was set to approve a calendar submitted by the DOE until teachers presented their proposals....

Friday, Nov. 28 and Saturday, Nov. 29, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Moanalua High School....

"...researchers are asking 11-year-olds whether they’ve had sex, how many partners they’ve had and if they’ve had anal sex...."

"...the Pono Choices survey instruments ... are part of an ongoing research project...."

...the number of states sharing teacher performance information with educator preparation programs has more than tripled....

From 2011 to 2013, Carlson was the deputy joint base commander at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam....

Does this mean the Ige administration will break from the HSTA and propose a publicly funded voucher program so we can all give taxpayer money to private schools?

Proposed reforms to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) threaten teacher accountability....

Staff from three complex areas will receive training and assistance....

Hawaii prohibits government funding of private preschools, but that may change Tuesday....

But combined enrollment for grades 1-12 continues to grow, with 823 more students in 2014-15....

...gains/losses on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) fourth and eighth-grade reading and mathematics exams from 2003 to 2013....

November 28 and November 29, 2014 at Moanalua High School....

"The Department of Education has a constitutional mandate to establish a statewide public school system that consists of, among other things, a comprehensive Hawaiian education program...."

Keonepoko and Pahoa High School will remain as election polling sites for the General Election on Tuesday, November 4....

Senator Ige Leaves Door Open For More Excise Taxes, Jokes About Hot School Crisis....

...Furlough Fridays, as they ACTUALLY happened, including David Ige's role....

...the magnitude of these payments exceeds the average salary of an American teacher, as well as a soldier deployed in Afghanistan, by at least $10,000 per year....

...what he hopes to accomplish with a newly established educational think-tank....

The Department of Education announced today that it will need additional emergency funding in order to avoid cutting bus routes and increasing the cost of school lunches....