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Friday, April 12, 2013
Leilehua, Baldwin, Kalani High Schools Finish FIRST in State Robotics Competition
By News Release @ 1:33 PM :: 4682 Views :: Education K-12
...earn a spot at the FIRST Robotics Championships in St. Louis, Mo., April 25-27....
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Book Review: A Hawaii Middle School Counselor’s Diary of a Working Day
By Rachelle Chang @ 11:09 AM :: 5040 Views :: Education K-12
Hawaiian Sunrise to Sunset...
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Friday, April 5, 2013
School Land Pillaged By Legislature – SB 237 and HB 865
By Selected News Articles @ 1:30 PM :: 7424 Views :: Education K-12, Development, Hawaii State Government
two bills currently at the capitol would allow the Lt. Governor and the DOE to lease public school land to private developers....
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
DOE to request waiver for School Improvement Grant funds
By News Release @ 1:56 PM :: 4352 Views :: Education K-12
... to extend the period of availability of school fiscal year (FY) 2010 and FY 2011 School Improvement Grant (SIG) funds ....
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Cradle to Grave: State Preschools and Legalized Marijuana
By News Release @ 1:56 PM :: 7067 Views :: Education K-12, Republican Party, Drugs
...why would anyone think this expensive, irresponsible, and deceptive program will work to improve the education of Hawaii’s children....
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Charter School Network 2nd Annual Awards Dinner
By News Release @ 1:52 PM :: 4136 Views :: Education K-12
Friday, May 3, 2013 6:00 pm Hawaii Prince Hotel.... 
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Hawaii Schools Win Big in TV Journalism Competition
By News Release @ 2:04 AM :: 5480 Views :: Education K-12
Led by five awards from Waianae High School, public schools captured 16 of 17 awards won by Hawaii schools this month at the 10th Annual Student Television Network (STN) Convention in Los Angeles....
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Teens wanted for Hawaii Meth Project advisory council
By News Release @ 1:41 PM :: 6410 Views :: Education K-12, Drugs
High school students, grades 9-12, across the state of Hawaii are encouraged to apply for one of 20 available positions....
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Revealing What States Are Hiding
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:46 PM :: 4026 Views :: Education K-12
How much are we spending on education? Actually, far more than we know—because as it turns out, states are hiding some of the teachers’ benefits....
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Monday, March 25, 2013
HSTA, DoE Announce $333M Tentative Agreement--Contract Vote April 17
By News Release @ 4:52 AM :: 7313 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
The four-year tentative agreement that the HSTA will now take to its members for ratification, includes annual pay increases and performance evaluations for teachers....
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Governor Releases $26.2 Million for Education Facilities Statewide
By News Release @ 1:08 PM :: 4308 Views :: Education K-12
...Abercrombie today announced the release of more than $26.2 for capital improvement projects....
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Atheists Push to Exclude Church Preschools from Early Learning
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 7:10 PM :: 6382 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment

...A wonderful opportunity to build private-public partnerships is quickly becoming a veiled blow to religious freedom in Hawaii.  Very shortly, it seems, some of our preschools and kindergartens may have to choose between funding and the practice of faith.... 

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
DoE Launches Leadership Institute for Principals
By News Release @ 11:28 PM :: 4346 Views :: Education K-12

"...we face the potential retirement of a number of veteran principals,” stated Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi....

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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Commission Approves Charter School Accountability Contract
By News Release @ 1:54 PM :: 4557 Views :: Education K-12

...accountability measures for financial and organizational performance for all charter schools in the state....

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Friday, March 15, 2013
Heritage: Why We Don't Need Universal Preschool
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:04 PM :: 3511 Views :: Education K-12

Heritage experts took a look at the President’s plan to see if it would actually help America’s needy children get ahead in the “race of life.”

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Friday, March 15, 2013
Reason: Case for Universal Preschool Lacks Compelling Evidence
By NCPA @ 12:59 PM :: 3015 Views :: Education K-12

Evidence from Oklahoma and Georgia, two states that adopted universal preschool in the 1990s, suggests that Obama's plan to expand preschool would have few meaningful effects....

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Thursday, March 7, 2013
HSTA, DoE, HLRB Agree to Mediation
By News Release @ 1:15 AM :: 5547 Views :: Education K-12, Labor

The parties are negotiating a 2013-15 contract....

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Saturday, March 2, 2013
DoE Million Dollar Cash Giveaway to 32 Schools
By News Release @ 2:44 PM :: 4537 Views :: Education K-12

...awards ranging from $12,500 to $100,000 recognize schools for significant academic progress for two consecutive years....

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Friday, March 1, 2013
DoE Extends Deadline for School Quality Survey
By News Release @ 11:51 AM :: 6139 Views :: Education K-12

The Hawaii State Department of Education (DOE) is extending until March 8 the deadline for parents to complete a survey to help public schools set priorities for improving programs and services....

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
DoE Cash Rewards for Academic Progress
By News Release @ 1:19 PM :: 4727 Views :: Education K-12

$12,500 to $100,000 as a reward for schools that have made significant academic progress for two consecutive years, and ranking in the top five percent in reading and/or mathematics....

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
23 Hawaii Robotics Teams Qualify for VEX World Championships
By News Release @ 1:00 PM :: 5520 Views :: Education K-12

23 middle and high school VEX Robotics teams have qualified to compete at the VEX World Championships in California, April 17-20....

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Monday, February 25, 2013
The Numbers Don’t Match: Obama vs Harkin on Hawaii Sequester Impact
By Andrew Walden @ 11:39 PM :: 11945 Views :: Education K-12, National News, Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

Here is a point-by-point comparison of the White House numbers for Hawaii and Sen. Harkin’s numbers for Hawaii

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Saturday, February 23, 2013
DoE Changes Student Assessment Tests Again
By News Release @ 2:36 PM :: 5354 Views :: Education K-12

As many as 75 DOE schools have been selected to participate in the pilot of the Smarter Balanced assessment system, which will be launched statewide in the 2014-15 school year....

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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Only 11.4% of DoE Graduates Score on AP Exam
By News Release @ 2:35 AM :: 5066 Views :: Education K-12

Approximately 11.4 percent of Hawaii’s graduating class scored a 3 or higher on an AP exam, compared with 19.5 percent nationally....

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
McDermott: It is time to settle the teachers’ contract!
By Selected News Articles @ 2:12 AM :: 4441 Views :: Education K-12, Labor

Making them grovel over less than a 2% increase (when health care costs are factored in), while at the same time proposing an expensive new preschool program is breathtakingly insulting....

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Thursday, February 14, 2013
What’s Wrong with Pay for Performance?
By NCPA @ 2:49 PM :: 6961 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care

Medicare will begin adjusting payments to physicians based on “the value of the care provided” in 2015....

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Audit: Teachers Stealing Cash Fees Collected at Adult Schools
By Andrew Walden @ 11:37 PM :: 6273 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics

...teachers at the DoE’s 11 Adult Schools may have been stealing everything: Tuition money, textbook fees, lab fees, and fixed assets.  They were also being paid for hours not worked....

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Audit: DoE Burns $150M/year on Construction and Maintenance, Tosses Records in Trash
By Selected News Articles @ 9:54 PM :: 5342 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii State Government

Because project documents were not consistently retained or filed...the current state assessment team was unable to complete planned testing procedures....

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Ethics: Charter School Employee Fined $10K
By News Release @ 2:47 PM :: 5626 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics

...20 separate violations of the State Ethics Code....

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Monday, February 11, 2013
RTTT: Hawaii DoE Wins Partial Removal of 'High Risk' Status
By News Release @ 10:47 PM :: 4185 Views :: Education K-12

Federal officials will be visiting Hawaii in April to review first hand the work that is being done in all of its RTTT Assurance Areas....

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Monday, February 11, 2013
Hawaii Teacher Absenteeism 2nd-Worst in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 4:35 PM :: 7397 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics

...advocates could potentially use these new data from the Department of Education to support a civil rights complaint....

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Monday, February 11, 2013
Hawaii Teacher Absenteeism: How Did Your School Do?
By Andrew Walden @ 4:13 PM :: 5298 Views :: Education K-12

How did your school do? Find out by clicking here....

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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Public Charter School Commission names director
By News Release @ 1:41 PM :: 4267 Views :: Education K-12

Hutton is a national authority on education law and policy and was a co-founder of a noted Washington D.C. charter school, Thurgood Marshall Academy....

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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Keaau K-8: Nearly 1,000 students assigned digital devices
By News Release @ 3:19 AM :: 4849 Views :: Education K-12

This January, Keaau students in kindergarten through grade 8 began working under a digital curriculum that includes a digital device, such as a laptop or tablet, assigned for their personal use....

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Abercrombie Unveils Early Childhood Action Strategy
By News Release @ 2:37 AM :: 4756 Views :: Education K-12

The strategy focuses on improving health, development, and learning experiences and outcomes of Hawaii’s youngest children, prenatal to age eight....

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Friday, February 1, 2013
Hawaii Charter School Law Improves from 35th to 14th in Nation
By News Release @ 3:03 PM :: 6359 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics

Hawaii’s law still needs significant improvement in several areas, including beefing up the requirements for charter application....

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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Feds Release RTTT Report: "We will continue to work closely with Hawaii"
By News Release @ 11:40 PM :: 4677 Views :: Education K-12

Among the major challenges identified by the USDOE was the delayed principal evaluation implementation.

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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Rep. McDermott: after nine years of development, new principal evaluation process still flunks
By News Release @ 7:54 PM :: 4553 Views :: Education K-12

Last week the State Department of Education finally released the criteria for principal evaluations....

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Monday, January 28, 2013
It's School Choice Week
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:43 PM :: 5465 Views :: Education K-12, National News

...school choice advocates—including parents, teachers, schoolchildren and administrators, and many others—will come together to promote educational choice, with more than 3,600 events taking place nationwide....

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Friday, January 25, 2013
State Rejects HSTA's Billion Dollar Contract Proposal, Feb 1 'Impasse' Looms
By News Release @ 8:24 PM :: 6139 Views :: Education K-12, Labor

In its proposal, HSTA seeks to:

  • Increase teachers’ base pay by 48.1 percent over the next four years,
  • Delay implementation of the new Educator Effectiveness System,
  • Gain veto power over development of each step of the system.
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Friday, January 25, 2013
DoE Scores 'D' for Teacher Preparation
By News Release @ 4:25 AM :: 6171 Views :: Education K-12, Labor

...there is much more that can be done to help ensure that new teachers are “classroom ready.” ...

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Friday, January 25, 2013
HSTA: 'Prepare for Negotiations to Continue at Length'
By News Release @ 4:08 AM :: 5838 Views :: Education K-12, Labor

Given the nature of negotiations, the proposal HSTA took to the table is a starting point and is subject to change....

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Thursday, January 24, 2013
HGEA, DOE Agree on Evaluation and Support System for Principals
By News Release @ 9:29 PM :: 6875 Views :: Education K-12, Labor

All Hawaii public school principals will receive enhanced supports and evaluations beginning in the 2013-14 school year under an agreement between the Hawaii State Department of Education (DOE) and the Hawaii Government Employees Association (HGEA)....

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
McDermott: Early Education Proposal Inadequate
By News Release @ 9:10 PM :: 4443 Views :: Education K-12

“I believe comprehensive educational reform can still be done, but not with the ill will the current administration has sown among the educators."

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Monday, January 21, 2013
Hawaii School Choice Week Events on Oahu, Maui
By News Release @ 10:08 PM :: 6548 Views :: Education K-12, Family

Hawaii Families for Educational Choice is proud to participate in this nation wide effort and will be hosting several events during National School Choice Week....

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Friday, January 18, 2013
'School Quality Survey' seeks parent feedback
By News Release @ 8:40 PM :: 4282 Views :: Education K-12

Beginning this month, schools will mail or ask students to bring the surveys home....

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Friday, January 18, 2013
DoE Asks Feds to Transfer School Repair Funds from Kamaile Academy to Deaf-Blind School
By News Release @ 8:32 PM :: 4142 Views :: Education K-12

To date, one school has successfully applied for funds. Because the school was not awarded the full amount of the carryover, HIDOE has asked USDOE for approval to use the balance of the carryover for ... Hawaii School for the Deaf and the Blind (HSDB).

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Thursday, January 17, 2013
HSTA: "Time and Money Needed"
By News Release @ 10:17 PM :: 5704 Views :: Education K-12, Labor

“The State informed HSTA that there will be a formal response made at our next bargaining session on January 22."

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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Rep Thielen Introduces Bill Promoting Energy Efficiency in Schools
By Rep Cynthia Thielen @ 10:02 PM :: 6090 Views :: Education K-12, Energy

...schools that enter into these contracts and see their electric bills drop will actually get to keep the savings as a result....

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Dr John Rosemond Speaking--Honolulu, Waipahu, Poipu
By Mary Smart @ 4:20 PM :: 9351 Views :: Education K-12, Family

The wisdom of John Rosemond is something to ponder before initiating costly pre-kindergarten programs....

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