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Monday, September 26, 2016 |
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HIDOE Students Outpace Nation in AP Exam Gains
By News Release @ 10:11 PM :: 4793 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...gains on the Advanced Placement Program Exams over the year prior....
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Monday, September 26, 2016 |
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Survey: Hawaii Worst State for Teachers
By Selected News Articles @ 9:33 PM :: 6538 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...job pressures, low pay and lack of mobility force many teachers to quit soon after they start....
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Sunday, September 25, 2016 |
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Cool Schools: 180 Volunteers at Campbell HS, Ewa Beach ES
By News Release @ 5:02 AM :: 4123 Views :: Education K-12
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At Ewa Beach Elementary School the crew installed 3,500 LED bulbs to increase energy efficiency....
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Friday, September 16, 2016 |
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Understanding Hawaii Teacher Shortages
By News Release @ 4:42 AM :: 5648 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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A State-by-State Analysis of the Factors Influencing Teacher Supply, Demand, and Equity....
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016 |
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AskMeFirst#—Open women’s facilities to men? Women Speak Out
By Lt Gov Duke Aiona @ 4:21 AM :: 5684 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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“Ask Me First” is a campaign to draw attention to the stories of women and children....
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Thursday, September 8, 2016 |
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2016-2017 LifeSmarts Hawaii Competition
By News Release @ 6:11 PM :: 4158 Views :: Education K-12
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LifeSmarts is a free, national educational program that teaches students critical life skills in five key areas....
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016 |
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Board of Education: Matayoshi ‘Exceeds Expectations’
By News Release @ 4:58 PM :: 3929 Views :: Education K-12
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For the third consecutive year, the Hawaii State Board of Education (BOE) gave Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi an overall rating of 'Exceeds Expectations' in her annual job performance evaluation....
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Thursday, September 1, 2016 |
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Hawaii First State in the Nation to mandate Sexuality Education for Kindergarten
By Rep Bob McDermott @ 5:24 PM :: 8705 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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...they have no standards, they have no curriculum, they have had no public vetting or review process of any proposed new curriculum; but it's on the books and ready to go....
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016 |
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DoE Enrollment Drops Again—Charters Growing
By News Release @ 9:42 PM :: 4903 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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This year, Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) schools enrolled 169,268 students (down 719 from last year), and charter schools enrolled 10,634 (up 212 from last year)....
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016 |
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2016 ACT Scores: 85% of Hawaii Students not College-Ready
By News Release @ 6:07 AM :: 7151 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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Just as in 2015, only 15% of the Hawaii 2016 graduating class met all four ACT College Readiness Benchmarks....
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Monday, August 22, 2016 |
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ESSA: DoE Sets More Public Meetings
By News Release @ 7:55 PM :: 4228 Views :: Education K-12
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...the public has more opportunities to provide feedback at upcoming community meetings on Oahu, Kauai and Molokai....
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Thursday, August 11, 2016 |
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ESAs: How to increase school funding without raising taxes
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:03 PM :: 4195 Views :: Education K-12
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...a new program called Education Savings Accounts has accomplished this elsewhere, and provided more educational options for families....
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Thursday, August 11, 2016 |
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Ige: Obama Administration Turning ESSA into NCLB
By News Release @ 5:02 AM :: 3697 Views :: Education K-12
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...proposed regulations are overly restrictive and harken back to No Child Left Behind's one-size-fits-all approach....
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Thursday, August 4, 2016 |
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Why it’s so expensive to cool Hawaii’s schools
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:01 AM :: 6425 Views :: Education K-12, Energy, Ethics
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...dividing the project into an AC portion and an energy portion would greatly reduce the per-classroom cost....
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Thursday, August 4, 2016 |
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Hawaii School System Quality Ranks 42nd
By Selected News Articles @ 4:27 AM :: 4574 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...With school resuming session, many parents might be wondering whether they’ve selected the best school to secure their children’s academic success....
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Saturday, July 30, 2016 |
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Almost All Hawaii Catholic School Graduates go on to College
By News Release @ 3:42 AM :: 4782 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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One hundred percent of Maryknoll High School seniors have been accepted to colleges....
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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Hot Schools: DoE Prepares for Illness and Exhaustion
By News Release @ 11:12 PM :: 7381 Views :: Education K-12, Energy, Environment, Ethics
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... Schools could have been cooled already but DoE insiders had to reward crony contractors so the keiki will just have to suffer until next year ....
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016 |
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DoE Community Meetings--Seeks Input on ESSA
By News Release @ 7:21 PM :: 3935 Views :: Education K-12
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These meetings are part of the ongoing outreach effort in the updating of the Strategic Plan....
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Sunday, July 24, 2016 |
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How Much Money Does Hawaii Spend Per Student?
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:35 AM :: 4481 Views :: Education K-12
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...in Hawaii, parents aren’t allowed to send their children to a different school unless they get a rare district exemption....
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Saturday, July 23, 2016 |
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Video: Winds of Change in Education
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:04 PM :: 3896 Views :: Education K-12
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...why it's so expensive to cool Hawaii schools....
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016 |
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Full Text: Contractor Offered Cool Schools at $5990 per Classroom—Was Ignored by DoE
By Andrew Walden @ 4:50 PM :: 11373 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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Andrew Santos, President of Admor HVAC, presented the State Department of Education an April 20 offer to Cool Schools at $5990 per classroom....
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Monday, July 11, 2016 |
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Neighbor island ESSA town halls start Monday
By News Release @ 9:37 PM :: 4681 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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Each event is offered free of charge and will run from 5 to 7 p.m....
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Saturday, July 9, 2016 |
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Cool Schools: How Government Contracting Makes a $2,500 job cost $138,000
By Andrew Walden @ 12:51 AM :: 6981 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...the high bids will be used to make lower—but still exorbitant--second round bids look good by comparison....
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Friday, July 8, 2016 |
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Doubled: More contractors qualify for Slice of ‘Cool Schools’ bonanza
By News Release @ 6:41 PM :: 4158 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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Since March, the number of prequalified contractors has increased from 18 to 36 as HIDOE prepares to put projects back out to bid....
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Friday, July 1, 2016 |
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Ige Signs Cool Schools, Water Bills
By News Release @ 3:24 AM :: 5979 Views :: Education K-12, Energy, Environment
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...HB 2569 (Act 176) which aims to expedite the goals of the Department of Education to cool Hawai‘i’s schools, reduce energy costs, meet Hawai‘i’s clean energy goals....
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016 |
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Study: Hawaii is Number One in Teacher Absenteeism
By Selected News Articles @ 3:27 AM :: 6022 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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"Hawaii has…80 schools where 90% of teachers are absent ten days or more."
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Thursday, June 23, 2016 |
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Energy monitoring and management coming to 250 public schools
By News Release @ 5:00 AM :: 5632 Views :: Education K-12, Energy
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All public elementary, middle, and high schools in the Hawaiian Electric Companies' service territory are receiving new, intelligent, energy-monitoring devices and software....
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016 |
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Child Well-Being: Hawaii Ranks 23rd
By News Release @ 6:21 PM :: 7271 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book....
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016 |
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Hanabusa Uses Teachers to Open Door to More Lobbyist 'Gifts' to Legislators
By News Release @ 4:23 PM :: 9324 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Labor
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...Hanabusa pointed out that the same issues underlying the disagreement over teacher travel and education trips are also involved in applying the gift provisions of the ethics code to legislators....
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016 |
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Education Savings Accounts: A New Way Forward
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:27 AM :: 5532 Views :: Education K-12, Tax Credits
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Taxpayers in Hawaii spend about $1.8 billion on education every year....
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Sunday, June 19, 2016 |
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Charter School Corruption Mirrors State Government
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4143 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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Many agencies relish the ability to spend public money with little or no accountability....
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016 |
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BoE: Ige Appoints Uemura, Reappoints DeLima
By News Release @ 2:32 AM :: 4089 Views :: Education K-12
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...Kenneth Uemura will fill the City and County of Honolulu seat currently held by Amy Asselbaye....
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Thursday, June 9, 2016 |
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Survey: More High-Risk Behavior from Hawaii Public High School Youth
By News Release @ 4:54 PM :: 6194 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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The Youth Risk Behavior Survey is administered in odd-numbered years to Hawai‘i public school students in grades 6–12....
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Thursday, June 2, 2016 |
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Education Week: Hawaii DoE Graduation Rate 82%
By News Release @ 5:59 PM :: 5093 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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... for Asian-Americans the Hawaii Graduation rate is 6th-lowest in USA ....
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Thursday, June 2, 2016 |
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Nailed for Cronyism, DoE forced to Reopen Bidding on $100M Cool Schools Bonanza
By News Release @ 5:37 AM :: 6004 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Small Business
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...Government Contracting Explained: How Air Conditioning Costs $100K Per Classroom....
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Thursday, June 2, 2016 |
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ESSA 2016 Hawaii Education Summit
By News Release @ 4:38 AM :: 5632 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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...Saturday, July 9, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m....
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Monday, May 30, 2016 |
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Local Principal Advocates for Private School Choice
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:49 PM :: 6396 Views :: Education K-12
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“Right now in the state of Hawaii we have a weighted student formula, so the money follows the kid… except for private schools?”
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Saturday, May 28, 2016 |
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Two Arrests: Corruption Bust Strikes at Heart of Drive for Fake Indian Tribe
By Andrew Walden @ 9:25 PM :: 13654 Views :: Akaka Bill, Education K-12, Ethics, OHA
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...what the powers that be look for when they pick the the future generations of leadership for Hawaii....
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016 |
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BoE Strips Student Performance out of Teacher Evaluations
By News Release @ 5:54 PM :: 5184 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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"Discarding standardized testing in teacher evaluations"
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016 |
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Jalousie Work: After 10 Years Union Lawsuit Ends
By News Release @ 1:33 AM :: 6280 Views :: Education K-12, Labor, Small Business
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The dispute began when the painters and glazers’ union complained to the State Contractors License Board that the contractors hired to renovate Lanakila Elementary School in 2005 were installing jalousie windows....
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016 |
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Audit: DoE Claims to be ‘Financially Responsible’
By News Release @ 5:42 AM :: 4316 Views :: Education K-12
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The Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) has released its Annual Financial Audit for the 2015 fiscal year....
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Monday, May 16, 2016 |
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Report: Hawaii State-Funded Pre-K Serves only 365 Students
By News Release @ 6:22 PM :: 4619 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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In Hawaii, this is the first year the Executive Office on Early Learning’s pre-K program was included in the report....
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Saturday, May 14, 2016 |
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When Classrooms Get Too Hot, Laie Parents Take Matters into Their Own Hands
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:48 PM :: 5634 Views :: Education K-12, Energy
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Jennifer Kajiyama and Carol Feinga are part of Keep Laie Cool, an initiative working to solve the crisis of Hawaii’s hot classrooms....
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Saturday, May 14, 2016 |
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Obama Admin Orders Hawaii Schools to Let Trannies Hang out in Bathrooms
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 4:11 PM :: 7296 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment
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Roosevelt said: "A chicken in every pot." Obama says: "A tranny in every bathroom."
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Friday, May 13, 2016 |
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McDermott calls for special session to address Campbell HS construction funds
By Rep Bob McDermott @ 2:33 AM :: 4202 Views :: Education K-12
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...Otherwise we shall be stuck with chaos and an embarrassment in two years....
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016 |
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BYUH One of 20 Best Education Schools in US
By News Release @ 2:02 PM :: 5066 Views :: Education K-12, Higher Education
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...The 2016 National College Education Program Rankings have been released by ToBecomeATeacher.org....
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Sunday, May 8, 2016 |
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Transient Oriented Schools: Impacting Housing Costs
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 5129 Views :: Education K-12, Rail
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Forced exactions to fund our government don’t always come from taxing agencies....
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Friday, May 6, 2016 |
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Ige Signs ‘Cool Schools’ Bill
By News Release @ 12:42 AM :: 7630 Views :: Education K-12, Energy
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...an emergency appropriation of $100 million to fund equipment and installation costs for air conditioning, heat abatement measures and related energy efficiency measures....
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Saturday, April 30, 2016 |
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‘ESSA Team’ Begins Writing ‘Blueprint for Public Education in Hawaii’
By News Release @ 8:45 PM :: 3802 Views :: Education K-12
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...the 19 members discussed innovation and empowerment as the team starts work to create the blueprint for public education in Hawai‘i....
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Friday, April 29, 2016 |
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Hiding the Failure: DoE Gets Another Testing Waiver for Hawaiian Language Immersion Schools
By News Release @ 5:34 PM :: 5430 Views :: Education K-12
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For the second consecutive year, the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education (HIDOE) will issue a specialized assessment to Hawaiian immersion students....
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