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Monday, October 6, 2025
Hawaii Mixed Scores on Mental Health
By News Release @ 2:01 PM :: 85 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Homelessness, Drugs

... Hawaiʻi ranked No. 37 for identifying students with emotional disturbance (ED) for individualized education programs (IEPs) ....

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Saturday, September 27, 2025
Feds: Hawaii has until Oct 27 to remove all References to 'Gender Ideology' from Sex-Ed Programs
By Court House News @ 1:16 PM :: 1034 Views :: Education K-12, Family

... Hawaii joins a 16-state lawsuit filed Friday in an effort to keep transsexualizing your children ....

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Hawaii's First Interscholastic Surfing Championships in 2026
By News Release @ 2:58 AM :: 1433 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12

... The inaugural championships will be May 1–2, 2026, at Hoʻokipa Beach Park on Maui, hosted by the MIL, which has sanctioned high school surfing since 2014 ....

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Sunday, September 21, 2025
DoE Absenteeism still running at 24%
By News Release @ 7:26 PM :: 2139 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics

... This means that the least motivated 24% of students are likely to have skipped the testing, which is still running below pre-COVID numbers.  Meanwhile DoE is aging COVID-failed students out of the system ....

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Sunday, September 21, 2025
Registration Open for 2025-2026 Hawaiʻi LifeSmarts Competition
By News Release @ 5:42 PM :: 1718 Views :: Education K-12

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

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
UH Studies Youth Sexual Violence
By News Release @ 2:46 AM :: 3345 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Hawaii Statistics

... rates among boys in general were lower overall ....

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Monday, September 15, 2025
Hawaii Worst State for Teachers
By Selected News Articles @ 6:38 PM :: 3666 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Cost of Living
  • 50th – Avg. Starting Salary for Teachers (Adjusted for Cost of Living)
  • 51st – Avg. Salary for Teachers (Adjusted for Cost of Living)
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Saturday, September 13, 2025
Ousted Damien HS President confidential settlement after group sex whistleblower lawsuit
By News Release @ 3:31 PM :: 4660 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Religion

... Laanui’s allegations were explosive, including a group sex incident on campus involving football players and a female student. He said the alumni association was violating ILH rules by paying cash scholarships to star football players, and he accused coaches Anthony Tuitele and Ron Dalmacio of taking money from the school ....

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Thursday, September 11, 2025
Republican Legislators fly to Virginia to find Lawyer Threatening to sue Kamehameha Schools
By Video @ 3:20 PM :: 4737 Views :: Education K-12, OHA, Republican Party

... Awa and Garcia decided to find him in person ....

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Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Educational Innovation: Hawaii Ranks 44th
By Selected News Articles @ 1:47 PM :: 4230 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics

... Educational innovation plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of jobs and communities ....

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Friday, September 5, 2025
More Lawsuits to Challenge Kamehameha Schools Admissions Policy?
By News Release @ 3:45 AM :: 6287 Views :: Akaka Bill, Education K-12, OHA

... Is your child barred from Kamehameha Schools based on ancestry? .... 

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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
ACLU Sues Maui Prep School to Force Trans-sexualization of little boy
By News Release @ 4:46 AM :: 6459 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Family

... Jane Poe, the Plaintiff in the case, is a nine-year-old transgender student (boy) who has lived openly as (been manipulated into pretending to be) a girl since age five ....

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Friday, August 29, 2025
Trump HHS tells Hawaii DoE to remove gender ideology from sex ed or lose PREP funding
By Selected News Articles @ 12:08 PM :: 4780 Views :: Education K-12, Family

... The Trump administration directed 46 states and territories to remove gender ideology from their sex ed materials or else face possible termination of federal Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) funding ....

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Monday, August 25, 2025
Supreme Court restores parental opt-out from LGBTQ Propaganda
By News Release @ 2:49 PM :: 4790 Views :: Education K-12, Family

... The Supreme Court ruled 6-3, June 26, 2025, that parents have the right to opt their children out of storybooks that push one-sided ideology on gender and sexuality ....

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Sunday, August 24, 2025
Classroom Heat
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 5290 Views :: Education K-12, Energy, Ethics

... ten years ago Governor Ige kicked off an effort to get air conditioners into public school classrooms ....

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Monday, August 18, 2025
Hawaii Basketball Coach Sentenced to Over 33 Years for Child Exploitation and Harassment of 10 Victims
By News Release @ 6:13 PM :: 865 Views :: Education K-12

...Hawaii Basketball Coach Sentenced to Over 33 Years for Child Exploitation and Harassment of 10 Victims....

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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Cool Schools: How Solar Scammers Looted $120M
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 3:02 PM :: 4899 Views :: Education K-12, Energy, Ethics

"...Now, with the batteries that were installed on many of the solar AC systems nearing the end of their lifespans, one DOE official warned that the systems will need to be retired altogether.  He called the heat abatement initiative a $120 million disaster...."

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Thursday, August 7, 2025
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Launches Aircraft Mechanic Training Program
By News Release @ 4:10 AM :: 2679 Views :: Education K-12

... a no-cost, two-year training initiative designed to prepare Oʻahu high school juniors for careers in aviation maintenance and mechanics ....

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Thursday, July 31, 2025
Brighter Futures, Stronger Ties: US Nonprofit Drives Educational Progress in Strategically Situated Micronesia  
By News Release @ 6:07 PM :: 2354 Views :: Education K-12, World News

... an American nonprofit is helping students from some of Micronesia’s most remote islands access the region’s top-performing private schools ....

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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
DoE Ready to Resume Most School Bus Routes
By News Release @ 2:13 AM :: 1489 Views :: Education K-12

... nine routes remain temporarily suspended — about 6% of the 138 routes that were impacted at the peak of last school year’s disruptions ....

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Monday, July 21, 2025
Search is on for a new KSBE Trustee
By News Release @ 6:28 PM :: 1143 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Development, Land Use

... Trustee to succeed Trustee Robert K.W.H. Nobriga, whose term expired on June 30, 2025 ....

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Monday, July 7, 2025
Building New Schools
By Tom Yamachika @ 2:27 PM :: 2060 Views :: Education K-12, Development, Taxes

... the fees have been collected but have not been used, and for a very long time ....

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Wednesday, July 2, 2025
After Much Gnashing of Teeth, OHA Trustees Approve Amended Budget
By News Release @ 1:58 PM :: 2089 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, OHA

“Trustees rolled up their sleeves and engaged the details like never before — offering and approving amendments live at the table, line by line, in full public view."

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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Priced out: The growing challenge of teacher pay and housing costs
By News Release @ 6:33 PM :: 2485 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Cost of Living

... in Hawaii, rent for a one-bedroom unit costs 46% of beginning, bachelor-degree-holding teacher salary ....

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Sunday, June 15, 2025
Supreme Court decision makes it easier for disabled students to sue school districts for bias
By News Release @ 5:10 PM :: 1760 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care

... lower courts had ruled against the family’s claim for damages, despite finding the school had fallen short ....

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Thursday, June 12, 2025
Hawaii is a Leader for Preschool Quality But Last in Access Among Pacific States
By News Release @ 4:42 PM :: 2807 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

...Hawaii serves just 5% of its four-year-olds and 2% of three-year-olds in state-funded preschool programs, dead last among Pacific states....

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Monday, June 9, 2025
Hawai‘i children hit hard by high cost of housing
By News Release @ 12:22 PM :: 2765 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... Hawaiʻi ranks 24th in overall children’s well-being in the Data Book, as well as 33rd in the economic well-being ....

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Sunday, June 8, 2025
REPORT: Hawaii Math Instruction 'Unacceptable'
By News Release @ 5:29 PM :: 1373 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education

... an estimated 3,120 students in 4th grade likely cannot perform skills like adding and subtracting multidigit whole numbers, fractions, and decimals ....

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Monday, June 2, 2025
Hawaii Driver Education: 59 Years Without a Plan
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 2:04 AM :: 1823 Views :: Education K-12, Small Business

... The Department of Education’s driver education program is incomplete, a loosely organized and inconsistent collection of school-level practices, that is incapable of being meaningfully evaluated ....

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Monday, May 12, 2025
Teaching Personal Finance? Hawaii Ranks 42nd
By Selected News Articles @ 12:00 PM :: 2020 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Hawaii Statistics

... States With the Best Budgeting Education in High Schools ....

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Trump Admin: Native Hawaiian History NOT Considered 'DEI'
By Selected News Articles @ 8:30 PM :: 4085 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii History, Higher Education

... On April 25, the Department of Education issued a letter clarifying that Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, and American Indian communities are not considered part of DEI or CRT categories ....

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Friday, April 4, 2025
Hawaii DoH: Get Measles Vax Without Losing Religious Exemption
By News Release @ 4:14 PM :: 2867 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care

... The emergency rules will allow children with a religious exemption to receive the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine while retaining the exemption to other vaccines and continuing to attend school ....

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Thursday, April 3, 2025
Report: 34% of DoE Students 'Chronically Absentee'
By News Release @ 6:47 PM :: 1478 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics

... The absence of these low-performing students artificially increases average test scores ....

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Thursday, April 3, 2025
Hawaiʻi HS class of ‘24 ties record 86% grad rate, college enrollment up
By News Release @ 1:27 AM :: 1968 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education

... completers of Dual Credit classes up 3% from 24% to 27% ....

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Saturday, March 29, 2025
DoE Announces 2025 HS Graduation Schedule
By News Release @ 1:03 AM :: 4457 Views :: Education K-12

... statewide list of commencement celebrations ....

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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
State Public Charter School Commission Votes to Not Renew Kamalani Academy Charter Contract
By News Release @ 5:08 PM :: 1980 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics

... Insiders Looted Kamalani Academy Before State Opted To Shut It Down ....

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Thursday, March 13, 2025
HB422: Let’s close the book on school impact fees
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:59 PM :: 1749 Views :: Education K-12, Development

... HB422 would abolish the school impact fee program and transfer its balance to the School Facilities Special Fund ....

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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Man arrested in Utah nursing home may not be extradited for 1977 McKinley HS murder
By Selected News Articles @ 2:55 AM :: 2165 Views :: Honolulu County, Education K-12, Hawaii History, Law Enforcement

... Hawaii authorities are reportedly deciding to not extradite Castro from Utah, according to a spokesperson for the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office ....

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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Gov. Josh Green on Trump wanting states to run education: “I’ll take it”
By Video @ 2:45 AM :: 2017 Views :: Education K-12

... Hawaii governor in support of states taking over education ....

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Saturday, March 8, 2025
Social Worker Arrested in Torture Death of Foster Girl
By Andrew Walden @ 1:24 AM :: 6460 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Higher Education, COVID-19

... The latest foster parent arrested for child torture is a university instructor, social worker, DoE behavioral health specialist, and UH Manoa PhD student ....

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Monday, March 3, 2025
Hawai‘i students turn local ingredients into unique products through entrepreneurial program
By News Release @ 11:49 PM :: 1860 Views :: Education K-12, Small Business

... featuring an array of student-made products including ‘ulu chips, lollipops, skincare products and more ....

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Sunday, March 2, 2025
VICTORY! SB1150 Child Sex-Change Kidnap Bill Deferred
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 3:03 PM :: 2831 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care

... SB1150 Would Have Legalized Kidnap of Children for Sex-Change ....

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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Grassroot: State's school impact fees earn 'F'
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:27 PM :: 1987 Views :: Education K-12, Development, Taxes

... The report says the fees are not needed, are likely unconstitutional, have never been spent, and are driving up Hawaii housing costs ....

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Saturday, February 8, 2025
First Christian Good News Clubs in Hawaii Schools after Court Victory
By News Release @ 12:29 PM :: 4468 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment, Religion

... Hawaii State Department of Education had previously denied every Good News Club request submitted over the last three years while approving non-Christian groups ....

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Friday, January 31, 2025
Trump Executive Order Mandates School Choice for Military Families
By News Release @ 7:31 PM :: 1848 Views :: Education K-12, Military

"... It directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a plan to the President for how military families can use Department of Defense funds to send their children to the school of their choice ...."

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Friday, January 31, 2025
DoE Tries to Spin Latest Batch of Failing Test Scores
By News Release @ 3:01 PM :: 2371 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
  • 4th-Grade Math -- Hawaii 26th-worst
  • 4th-Grade Reading -- Hawaii 10th-worst
  • 8th-Grade Math -- Hawaii 11th-worst
  • 8th-Grade Reading -- Hawaii 12th-worst
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Thursday, January 30, 2025
Schatz, Cruz, Murphy, Britt Introduce Bipartisan Legislation To Keep Kids Safe, Healthy, off Social Media
By News Release @ 10:41 AM :: 1956 Views :: Education K-12, Family

... Kids Off Social Media Act Sets Social Media Age Minimum To 13, Prohibits Use Of Algorithms To Feed Addictive Content To Teens Under 17 ....

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Monday, January 27, 2025
HIDOE releases after-action report on Maui wildfire response and recovery efforts
By News Release @ 1:00 PM :: 1251 Views :: Education K-12

... The report outlines 10 key challenges, ranging from accounting for displaced students to managing transportation and meals ....

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Friday, January 24, 2025
Robotics teams to compete in the 2025 Hawaii VEX Regional Championships
By News Release @ 1:54 PM :: 1755 Views :: Education K-12

... Events will qualify 15 local teams to advance to the VEX Worlds ....

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Thursday, January 23, 2025
Hawaii K-12 Parent and School Expo to Highlight Learning Options and Family Fun
By News Release @ 2:22 PM :: 1719 Views :: Honolulu County, Education K-12

... Expo at Windward Mall Saturday, January 25, 2025, to feature student showcase, face painting, snacks, and entertainment ....

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