Education K-12

...students requiring remedial classes dropped to 31 percent in English and remained at 36 percent for math....

During his last State of the Union address, President Obama proposed a new universal pre-kindergarten education program....

Educators at the two independent High Schools on Yap have announced plans for a public exhibition and competition, featuring teams from their student robotics clubs....

... should be premised on the provision of fair compensation to the City and County of Honolulu ....

The bill appropriated $1.160M for administration costs for two years and $6M in FY15 for subsidies based on a sliding fee scale....

... African American college-enrollment increased by 24 percent ....

SB1084 proposes a constitutional amendment to allow the appropriation of public funds for private early childhood education programs ....

...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.... 

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

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

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.”

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....

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

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

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....

$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....

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

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

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....

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

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....

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

...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....

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

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

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....

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

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

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....