Education K-12

...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....

Kathleen Morita was teaching at Hauula Elementary School in September 2007 when a custodian reported the smell of marijuana coming from her classroom. He also reported what he thought was a bottle of wine in a paper bag....

After weeks of bureaucratic run-around McDermott finally received a copy of the requested materials....

Quality Counts 2014: District Disruption & Revival....

Abercrombie’s Executive Office on Early Learning (EOEL) today presented a symposium for the Hawaii State Legislature, the state’s multi-level educational systems and the private sector....

Hawaii State Teachers Association urges the Legislature to support and fund the following....

States increasingly are turning to dual enrollment as a strategy for improving college readiness and access, according to a 50-state database....

The main philosophy of Advocates for Youth is that children have “sexual rights”....

... Hawaii now has a total of 469 NBCTs ....

...Blake Oshiro, out in front of the news cameras to deny that any “parade of horribles” relating to the activist LGBT agenda would ever be unleashed on the people of Hawaii....

...McDermott said he should be able to get a copy of the 10-hour curriculum from either the state Department of Education or the University of Hawaii Center on Disability Studies, which developed the $800,000 pilot program....

...In the fastest "investigation" in Hawaii history, 2 weeks, the DOE announced the program will restart. The program will also be expanded to 30 more schools....

...the elected State Legislature has twice appropriated $618,000 of State construction and improvement funds specifically directed to the VSAS. The Governor of the State Hawaii, exercising what amounts to line item veto, has arbitrarily, for two years, withheld these funds....

A review of Pono Choices confirmed the curriculum is ... aligned with ... state law ....

The interactive website allows users to click among multiple data streams comparing the state's Complex Areas, schools and student groups....