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Friday, March 7, 2014 |
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Hawaii’s schools aren’t the best, so what’s with pay raises, shorter class schedules?
By Malia Zimmerman @ 5:34 AM :: 4064 Views :: Education K-12
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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....
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 |
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In Face of Lawsuit, DOE Pushes Ahead with Overpriced Chevron Solar Deal
By News Release @ 9:54 PM :: 5540 Views :: Education K-12, Energy
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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....
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Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
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House Bill 14: Mandatory Kindergarten, Lowering Compulsory School Attendance Age to 5
By News Release @ 8:36 PM :: 4100 Views :: Education K-12
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Many education experts have concluded that beginning a child's formal education too early may actually result in burnout and poor scholastic performance later....
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Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
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More questionable social engineering comes to Hawaii’s public schools
By Rep Bob McDermott @ 8:25 PM :: 7332 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment
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...like Pono Choices, there is a disproportionate focus on normalizing homosexuality....
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Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
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Brookings: Do Teacher Professional Development Programs Work?
By NCPA @ 2:49 PM :: 3584 Views :: Education K-12
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Professional development programs in the field of education have very little scientific support....
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
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Hawaii Charter School Law: Measuring up to the Model?
By News Release @ 10:10 PM :: 4542 Views :: Education K-12
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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....
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
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Abercrombie Releases $62.4M in DoE CIP
By News Release @ 4:20 PM :: 4126 Views :: Education K-12
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...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....
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Friday, February 21, 2014 |
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No Surprise: DoE Includes Tranny on Pono Choices Review Panel
By News Release @ 8:26 PM :: 8299 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment
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The Hawaii State Department of Education (DOE) yesterday convened a working group to review Pono Choices....
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014 |
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BoE Reaffirms Commitment to Hawaiian Language and Culture
By News Release @ 1:31 AM :: 3812 Views :: Education K-12
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The Board spent nearly one year working with stakeholders to craft policy revisions....
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Sunday, February 16, 2014 |
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Quid pro Quo? HSTA Endorses Ige for Governor
By News Release @ 8:26 PM :: 6775 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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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....
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Friday, February 14, 2014 |
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Statewide Meetings: Parents Protecting Their Children from Pono Choices
By News Release @ 3:16 PM :: 7066 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment
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Same sex marriage opens a Pandora Box of activist pressure on our schools....
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Friday, February 14, 2014 |
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Atheist Scores $200K from New Hope Lawsuit Settlement
By News Release @ 1:48 AM :: 8570 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment, Religion
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The settlement occurred with churches not represented by Alliance Defending Freedom....
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014 |
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"You Brainwashed Me": Victim Confronts Alleged Homosexual Child Molester
By Video @ 1:38 AM :: 7068 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Law Enforcement
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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....
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Monday, February 3, 2014 |
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DOE reports on school year and instructional time
By News Release @ 8:30 PM :: 4299 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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Any change, as the bill proposes, would require a change to the current collective bargaining agreement with the HSTA, which runs through 2017....
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Monday, February 3, 2014 |
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HI lawmaker renews fight to end or revise controversial sex ed program
By Malia Zimmerman @ 7:16 PM :: 7526 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment, Health Care
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...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....
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Saturday, February 1, 2014 |
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Feb 4-5: Pono Choices or Poor Choices?
By Hawaii Family Advocates @ 9:11 PM :: 8574 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment, Health Care
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Board of Education (BOE) Hearing Tuesday, Feb 4th, 2014, 1:30 PM....
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014 |
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Roosevelt HS Shooting: Failure of Mental Health Care System
By News Release @ 12:41 PM :: 10676 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care, Justice Reinvestment
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...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....
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
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KIDS COUNT report reveals growing gap in reading proficiency of students
By News Release @ 11:04 PM :: 3957 Views :: Education K-12
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...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....
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Monday, January 27, 2014 |
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Is Your Child in the Right School?
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:42 AM :: 3930 Views :: Education K-12
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...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....
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Saturday, January 25, 2014 |
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School Choice Week in Hawaii to Feature 30 Events
By News Release @ 5:00 AM :: 4196 Views :: Education K-12
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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....
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Saturday, January 25, 2014 |
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Legislators Silencing Professional Counselors Free Speech?
By Hawaii Family Advocates @ 4:08 AM :: 7014 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment
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This bill prohibits teachers and persons who are licensed to provide professional counseling from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with a person under eighteen years of age.
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Friday, January 24, 2014 |
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SB2922: Lengthen School Year to 190 Days, Eliminate Minimum Hours of Instruction
By News Release @ 7:07 PM :: 4726 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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The bill also discontinues the requirements for the minimum number of student instructional hours effective at the end of the 2014-2015 school year....
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
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Michael Medved, Lynn Finnegan Kick off Hawaii Celebration of National School Choice Week
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:27 AM :: 4627 Views :: Education K-12
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The event, called "Better Choices - Better Schools," was intended to raise awareness about how expanding educational choice can help America prosper....
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014 |
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Pono Choices Coming to Every Middle School Next Semester
By Selected News Articles @ 8:18 PM :: 6824 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care
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Pono Choices offers little to no information on sexual harassment, Sexually Transmitted Infections, their symptoms and consequences or single parenthood....
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Sunday, January 19, 2014 |
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Home School Legal Defense Association Legislative Watch List
By News Release @ 2:07 PM :: 6606 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment
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HSLDA advocates in state legislatures, at the invitation of state homeschool organizations....
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Friday, January 17, 2014 |
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Ethics: State Supervisor Got $10,000 Riding Mover from Vendor
By News Release @ 3:30 AM :: 4633 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...Charge against John Doe, a maintenance supervisor employed by the Department of Education....
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Friday, January 17, 2014 |
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Full Text: Hawaii DoE Budget Proposal
By News Release @ 1:11 AM :: 3912 Views :: Education K-12
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Learn more about the DOE's budget, including budget breakdown and cycle, supplemental requests, per-pupil funding and more....
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Thursday, January 16, 2014 |
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Michael Medved, Lynn Finnegan Launch School Choice Week in Honolulu
By News Release @ 1:51 PM :: 4144 Views :: Education K-12
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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....
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Friday, January 10, 2014 |
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Hauula Teacher Wins Back Pay After Pot-Fueled Firing
By Selected News Articles @ 12:07 PM :: 5086 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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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....
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Thursday, January 9, 2014 |
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Abercrombie Touts Nursery School for 640 Kids
By News Release @ 10:51 PM :: 3229 Views :: Education K-12
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Children must be four years old by July 31, 2014, which follows the new kindergarten age requirement, beginning in the 2014-2015 school year. The classrooms will be staffed by DOE teachers and educational assistants.
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Thursday, January 9, 2014 |
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Pono Choices not medically accurate, age appropriate, or complete on STD risks
By Rep Bob McDermott @ 8:08 PM :: 9334 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care
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After weeks of bureaucratic run-around McDermott finally received a copy of the requested materials....
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Thursday, January 9, 2014 |
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Ed Week: Hawaii DoE scores 77.3% Chance for Success
By News Release @ 3:47 PM :: 3688 Views :: Education K-12
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Quality Counts 2014: District Disruption & Revival....
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Thursday, January 9, 2014 |
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Abercrombie Hosts Nursery School Sales Pitch for Legislators
By News Release @ 2:28 AM :: 5228 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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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....
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 |
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A New Year and New Scholars at Grassroot Institute
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:35 AM :: 3763 Views :: Education K-12
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January is School Choice Month!
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013 |
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HSTA Legislative Agenda: Bring Back Pre-Kindergarten
By News Release @ 7:08 PM :: 5749 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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Hawaii State Teachers Association urges the Legislature to support and fund the following....
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013 |
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High Schoolers Dual-Enrolled in College: How Does Hawaii Compare?
By News Release @ 6:28 PM :: 4900 Views :: Education K-12
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States increasingly are turning to dual enrollment as a strategy for improving college readiness and access, according to a 50-state database....
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Monday, December 23, 2013 |
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FULL TEXT: Secret Pono Choices Curriculum Exposed
By Tito Montes @ 11:23 PM :: 24235 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment
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The main philosophy of Advocates for Youth is that children have “sexual rights”....
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Monday, December 23, 2013 |
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Saturday, December 21, 2013 |
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There's Nothing Pono About Pono Choices
By Tito Montes @ 3:03 PM :: 9445 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment
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...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....
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Friday, December 20, 2013 |
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Hawaii’s education department keeping sex-ed curriculum a secret
By Malia Zimmerman @ 2:29 PM :: 6870 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment
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...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....
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Thursday, December 19, 2013 |
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Secret Encounters: DoE Refuses to Release Homosexual Education Curriculum to Legislators
By Sen. Sam Slom @ 3:47 AM :: 7923 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment
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...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....
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Sunday, December 15, 2013 |
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Fire Hazard: Volcano School Threatened with Closure After Abercrombie Refuses to Release Funds
By Selected News Articles @ 10:53 PM :: 5053 Views :: Hawaii County , Education K-12
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...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....
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Saturday, December 14, 2013 |
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Homosexual Education Program Back -- 12 Schools Next Semester
By News Release @ 11:29 AM :: 7406 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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A review of Pono Choices confirmed the curriculum is ... aligned with ... state law ....
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Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
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Proficiency and Growth: How is Your School Doing?
By News Release @ 7:55 PM :: 4358 Views :: Education K-12
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The interactive website allows users to click among multiple data streams comparing the state's Complex Areas, schools and student groups....
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Monday, December 9, 2013 |
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Hale Kula Elementary to Mark 'Hour of Code' at Schoefield
By News Release @ 8:31 PM :: 5226 Views :: Education K-12, Military
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Hale Kula’s “Hour of Code” event will include the presentation of a $10,000 check by Code.org and a brief session on computer programming with Hale Kula students....
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Saturday, December 7, 2013 |
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Robotic teams to compete at VEX State Championship
By News Release @ 8:47 PM :: 3648 Views :: Education K-12
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Forty middle and high school VEX robotics teams from across the state will compete Dec. 20-21 in the first-ever Hawaii VEX State Championship....
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Saturday, December 7, 2013 |
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Abercrombie Finds $844M, Wants to Spend it on Preschool Vouchers
By News Release @ 12:10 AM :: 5218 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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Abercrombie today announced that the State of Hawaii ended fiscal year 2013 with a positive fund balance of $844 million....
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Friday, December 6, 2013 |
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Atheist Ethics vs Santa: Teachers, Students Cannot 'Believe', 'Make a Wish'
By News Release @ 9:31 PM :: 6920 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, First Amendment
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For each letter to Santa that is deposited in the Santa Mail letterbox located at Macy’s stores, Macy’s will donate $1 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation....
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013 |
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Brookings: New Evidence Raises Doubts on Abercrombie’s Preschool for All
By Selected News Articles @ 3:34 PM :: 3651 Views :: Education K-12
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...supporters of Preschool for All, including some academics who are way out in front of what the evidence says and know it, have turned a blind eye to the mixed and conflicting nature of research findings....
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013 |
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Oahu bus vendors selected for 2014-15 school year
By News Release @ 9:15 PM :: 3499 Views :: Education K-12
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The contracts are among major reform efforts underway since December 2012 to meet recommendations by the State Office of the Auditor....
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