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Thursday, January 25, 2018 |
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Robotics: 19 Hawaii Teams Heading for World Championship
By News Release @ 4:09 AM :: 3552 Views :: Education K-12
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...Nineteen robotics teams from across Hawaii achieved significant scores and demonstrated exceptional skill and performance at the Hawaiian Electric Companies Hawaii State VEX Championships held Jan. 13-14 at Kamehameha Schools....
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Thursday, January 25, 2018 |
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Screening for Health Barriers to Learning--Hawaii Schools Receive Mixed Scores
By News Release @ 3:36 AM :: 5061 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Missed Opportunities: Do States Require Screening of Children for Health Conditions that Interfere with Learning....
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018 |
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Most Educated States--Hawaii Ranks 17th
By Selected News Articles @ 12:15 AM :: 4007 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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"...Quality of Education -- 36th...."
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Monday, January 22, 2018 |
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School Choice Week in Hawaii: 80 Events and Activities Planned
By News Release @ 4:57 PM :: 3397 Views :: Education K-12
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...a celebration is planned on Thursday, January 25 9:30am at the State Capitol....
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Sunday, January 21, 2018 |
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U.S. Department of Education announces final approval of Hawaii ESSA plan
By News Release @ 2:32 PM :: 3353 Views :: Education K-12
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...Measures student success (dilutes failing test scores--Editor) with 14 indicators including chronic absenteeism, inclusion rate, teacher retention, facility repair and maintenance backlog, and family engagement....
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018 |
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Ward Introduces Bill Mandating 'Shelter-in-Place' Drills at Schools
By Rep Gene Ward @ 8:29 PM :: 5211 Views :: Education K-12, Military
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...“Hawaii's children must have safe haven at their schools in the event of a missile attack.”....
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Tuesday, January 2, 2018 |
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Application Period Begins for Preschool Open Doors Program
By News Release @ 9:47 PM :: 4389 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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...Applications received during this period will be considered for preschool participation during July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019....
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Sunday, December 24, 2017 |
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DoE: Feds Require 'Minor Adjustments' to our ESSA Plan to Hide Failure
By News Release @ 2:55 PM :: 3855 Views :: Education K-12
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"Hawaii is well on its way for approval once we make minor adjustments to our consolidated plan,” said Superintendent Dr. Christina Kishimoto....
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017 |
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Survey: 62% of Hawaii Youth Not Qualified for Military Service
By News Release @ 3:20 PM :: 6777 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Military, Drugs
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...Crime and Inability to Join Military or Workforce Present National Crisis....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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200 High School Students Watch Supreme Court Hear Lesbian Child Custody Case
By News Release @ 1:49 PM :: 5541 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Judiciary
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...The case heard at Castle, CC vs. DD, is a parentage case involving a former same sex married couple. The issue is whether Appellant has a legal parent/child relationship with the child born to Appellee during the marriage....
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Friday, December 15, 2017 |
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Child Molester: KSBE Apology letter implies abuse since 1962
By News Release @ 1:41 PM :: 5816 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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...unforgivable acts of physical and emotional abuse committed against Kamehameha School students at the hands of Dr. Robert Browne, a St. Francis consulting psychiatrist between the years of 1962 through 1984....
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Monday, December 11, 2017 |
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Hawaii DOE Saves $13M on School Bus Routes
By News Release @ 3:57 PM :: 3042 Views :: Education K-12
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...The Hawaii State Department of Education and TransPar have saved the state approximately $13 million annually through the Get on Board student transportation initiative....
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Friday, December 8, 2017 |
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Top Four HS Teams to Face Off in Hawaii LifeSmarts Competition
By News Release @ 1:56 PM :: 3137 Views :: Education K-12
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...Saturday, February 3, 2018 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Campus Center Ballroom from 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m....
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017 |
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Kamehameha School Child Molester Case – Hidden Payoff to Judge Exposed
By Andrew Walden @ 6:19 AM :: 14549 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...Judge Crandall's husband, David Schulmeister, and his law firm, Cades Schutte, represented the Kamehameha Schools, billing as much as $1 million a year....
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Saturday, December 2, 2017 |
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Tupola: Equal Funding for Charter Schools
By Video @ 4:23 PM :: 4154 Views :: Education K-12, Republican Party
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...Did you know that not all of our keiki get equal funding for school?....
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Saturday, December 2, 2017 |
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Child Molester: Petition Demands Kamehameha Schools Take Responsibility
By News Release @ 2:22 PM :: 4181 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...justice, reparation and healing for those individuals who were violated decades ago....
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Friday, December 1, 2017 |
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Hawaii Child Care Most Expensive in USA
By News Release @ 12:45 PM :: 5687 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Cost of Living
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...care for only one child in Hawai‘i consumes approximately 13 percent of the typical Hawai‘i family’s income....
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Saturday, November 25, 2017 |
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Survey: Military Families Overwhelmingly Favor School Choice
By Selected News Articles @ 2:18 AM :: 4504 Views :: Education K-12, Military
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...The survey of 1,200 active-duty personnel, veterans, and their spouses shows 72 percent are in favor of education savings accounts (ESAs), 64 percent are in favor of school vouchers, and 63 percent favor tax-credit scholarships....
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017 |
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DoE: 5-Year Teacher Retention 54%
By News Release @ 3:56 AM :: 4210 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...Department rolls out more data visuals for public to view....
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017 |
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DoE Puts 'Performance Indicators' Online
By News Release @ 1:00 AM :: 3472 Views :: Education K-12
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In an effort to make performance data easily available to the public, HIDOE today announced the launch of its Strategic Plan Dynamic Report....
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Sunday, November 5, 2017 |
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Ward to Ige: Speed Up Nuclear Drills for DOE
By Rep Gene Ward @ 2:25 PM :: 4518 Views :: Education K-12, Military
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...Rep. Ward (R-Hawaii Kai) wrote a letter to Gov. Ige asking the governor to prepare his departments, particularly the DOE to prepare for the unthinkable....
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Sunday, November 5, 2017 |
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Akina--Let's Work Together for Hawaiian Charter Schools
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:20 AM :: 4878 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, OHA
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Clearly, OHA owes our beneficiaries a sincere apology and a commitment to change our practices internally....
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017 |
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017 |
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These Are The 10 Smartest Communities In Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 2:08 AM :: 5506 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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...32 communities ranked from smartest to dumbest....
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017 |
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Former Charter School Principal Charged with Theft
By News Release @ 1:24 AM :: 4923 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...Allbrett, 64, is the former principal of the Halau Lokahi public charter school, a Native Hawaiian-focused charter school whose recurring financial difficulties led to the revocation of its charter....
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 |
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What Can You Learn from CNHA Failure?
By Video @ 6:58 PM :: 6761 Views :: Akaka Bill, Education K-12, Ethics, OHA
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...What Are The Lessons From The Council For Native Hawaiian Advancement's Failure To Get Charter School Money From OHA?....
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Friday, October 20, 2017 |
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UPDATE: OHA Trustees Reject CNHA Grab for Charter School Funds
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:59 AM :: 7102 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, OHA
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...the Resource Management Committee opted to instead give the grant funds directly to the charter schools, instead of to the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement....
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Friday, September 29, 2017 |
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Judiciary: Collaborative Effort to Reduce Truancy Launched
By News Release @ 7:40 PM :: 6249 Views :: Education K-12, Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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...A similar program at an Oahu intermediate school produced a 91 percent daily school attendance rate in 2016-17, up about 40 percent from 2015-16....
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Thursday, September 28, 2017 |
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Strive HI: How did your School do?
By News Release @ 6:00 PM :: 4295 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...The accountability system includes multiple measures of school performance including proficiency in Science, Math and Language Arts/Literacy; chronic absenteeism; school climate; graduation rates; and achievement gaps....
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017 |
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Girl Scouts Rank Hawaii 23rd for girls' well-being
By News Release @ 8:09 PM :: 4160 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...The State of Girls 2017: Emerging Truths and Troubling Trends....
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017 |
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DoE Touts AP Test Results
By News Release @ 4:24 AM :: 3891 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...double-digit increases in the number of exam takers, exams taken and scores of 3 or higher....
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Monday, September 25, 2017 |
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Hawaii Lowest Teacher Salaries in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 2:41 PM :: 5387 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...adjusted for cost of living....
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017 |
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Hawaii is #1 in Teacher Absenteeism at 79%
By Selected News Articles @ 2:51 PM :: 6457 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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In Hawaii about 79 percent of traditional public school teachers are chronically absent. In Hawaii charter schools it’s 23 percent…..
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Saturday, September 16, 2017 |
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Help Stop CNHA Grab for Charter School Funds
By Selected News Articles @ 2:16 PM :: 7464 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, OHA
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...Please Attend The Next Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Board Meeting On Thursday, September 21st At 10 AM At OHA Headquarters....
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017 |
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AG Chin Defeats Parents of Disabled Children (again)
By News Release @ 11:55 PM :: 3812 Views :: Education K-12
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...plaintiff alleged that the staff at Koko Head Elementary School excluded her four-year old son from participating in class and discriminated against him....
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Monday, September 11, 2017 |
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Hawaii DoE Sued over Sept 11 "Lockdown Drill"
By Selected News Articles @ 2:21 PM :: 4095 Views :: Education K-12
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...An abusive lockdown drill in which a masked man threatened a middle-school classroom with a hammer left the entire class in tears....
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Saturday, September 9, 2017 |
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The Power of School Choice
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:58 PM :: 4457 Views :: Education K-12, OHA
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...This was my first back to school experience at the Kualapu‘u Public Conversion Charter School on the island of Moloka‘i....
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Friday, September 8, 2017 |
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Enrollment: DoE Down 1% -- Charter Schools up 5%
By News Release @ 11:41 PM :: 3678 Views :: Education K-12
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...Department announces 2017-18 enrollment figures for public and charter schools....
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Friday, September 8, 2017 |
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DoH Cancels Flu Vaccinations at Dozens of Oahu Schools and All Private Schools
By News Release @ 3:51 PM :: 4597 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care
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...the State can pay billions for Rail but it can't pay thousands for vaccinations....
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Thursday, September 7, 2017 |
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2017 Hawaii ACT Scores 4th Worst in USA
By News Release @ 5:46 PM :: 4663 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...Hawaii ACT Composite score beats only Nevada, Mississippi, and South Carolina coming in 4th-worst in the USA....
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Monday, September 4, 2017 |
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Hawaii Schools Anti-bullying campaign marks its 10th year
By News Release @ 3:25 PM :: 3470 Views :: Education K-12
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The E Ola Pono campaign encourages youth groups to promote peace, pono and respect at their schools and communities through student–led campaigns....
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Monday, September 4, 2017 |
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Letter to Hawaii DoE: Trump overturns Obama Policy on Trannies in Bathroom
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 12:46 PM :: 5075 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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...“Much of the confusion over privacy facilities was driven by a short-lived effort by federal officials to redefine ‘sex’ to mean ‘gender identity’ under Title IX via a ‘Dear Colleague Letter’ to school officials in 2016”....
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Sunday, September 3, 2017 |
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AG Chin Defeats Parents of Disabled Children
By News Release @ 2:23 AM :: 4885 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care
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...A copy of the decision, Rachel H. v. Department of Education, State of Hawaii, is attached....
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Friday, September 1, 2017 |
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Cool Schools: Ige Claims Success
By News Release @ 3:30 AM :: 4923 Views :: Education K-12, Energy
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"One thousand classrooms now have air conditioning, and over 300 more will be complete by the end of September. In addition, hundreds more have been cooled using other heat abatement strategies,” Gov. Ige said....
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017 |
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Friday, August 25, 2017 |
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West Oahu Schools Underfunded? AG Responds to McDermott Suit
By News Release @ 4:33 AM :: 3684 Views :: Education K-12
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...The State has asked the Intermediate Court of Appeals to affirm Judge Nacino’s decision to dismiss the case....
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017 |
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Oahu, Maui Events: New Directions in Education
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:49 AM :: 4957 Views :: Education K-12
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...Students in Hawaii have few options when it comes to school choice....
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Sunday, August 20, 2017 |
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Hawaii Family Forum: Talk to Your Kids About Racism
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 1:45 AM :: 6908 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment, Life
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...The recent images from Charlottesville, VA-marches by torchlight, Nazi salutes, armed militia, angry mobs engaged in violent confrontation-are scary for adults to encounter, let alone children....
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Saturday, August 12, 2017 |
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Registration Open for Hawaii LifeSmarts Competition
By News Release @ 3:44 PM :: 3473 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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