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Sunday, June 9, 2019 |
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DOE, Fork Over That General Ledger!
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4294 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...the Education Institute of Hawaii that wants to see the general ledger for the whole Department of Education....
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Saturday, June 8, 2019 |
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ACLU: DoE Would Rather Litigate Than Build Locker Rooms for Female Students
By News Release @ 6:19 PM :: 4518 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...Documents filed yesterday in federal court by the ACLU of Hawai‘i reveal that DOE has simply been waiting for two female high school athletes to graduate, hoping the mere fact of their graduation will prevent the girls from being able to proceed with their gender discrimination lawsuit....
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019 |
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Low Participation Breakfast: DoE is Serving it All Summer
By News Release @ 5:45 PM :: 4461 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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...Hawaii 39.7% of free-lunch eligible students participate in free breakfast program – 2nd lowest in USA....
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Saturday, June 1, 2019 |
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Help the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board develop ethics training
By News Release @ 1:38 AM :: 5243 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Labor
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...work with Dr. Troy Hutchings to make the Model Code of Ethics for Educators 'appropriate for Hawaii'....
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Thursday, May 30, 2019 |
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Ethics: Caldwell Admin Asked Neighborhood Boards to Campaign Against HSTA Property Tax
By News Release @ 4:18 AM :: 6438 Views :: Honolulu County, Education K-12, Ethics, Labor
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...The Official requested...all 33 Neighborhood Board chairs...place the ballot issue ...on their board’s monthly agenda between September 15 and October 15, 2018, so that a certain political action committee “and others” could publicly discuss this topic prior to the election....
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Friday, May 24, 2019 |
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'Wildly irresponsible betrayal' Kishimoto Freaks Out Over UIPA Request
By News Release @ 1:25 PM :: 7053 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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"...On behalf of EIH, we are prepared to litigate this matter to the full extent necessary...."
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Wednesday, May 22, 2019 |
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VIDEO: Hirono, Megaphone, Abortion, 8th Graders
By Video @ 5:32 PM :: 6114 Views :: Education K-12, Congressional Delegation, Life
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...“And then, the boys who were there among the sixty, I told them, you know, it’s kind of hard for a woman to get pregnant without you guys,” she said....
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019 |
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Petition: Support DOE Budget Transparency to Improve Public Education in Hawaii
By News Release @ 3:02 PM :: 4500 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...It remains unclear exactly how the DOE’s nearly $1.9 billion operating budget is being spent due to the complex, non-transparent nature of its budget. This is not to mention the roughly $1 billion in other expenses that make up the almost $3 billion DOE budget....
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019 |
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Hawaii Drivers Have High GPA and Low Test Scores
By News Release @ 5:30 AM :: 4650 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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... their reported average GPA ranks them amongst the top five smartest states in the country ... (BUT) ... Hawaii has the lowest mean ACT score on this list and the fifth lowest in the United States ....
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019 |
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HSTA: Stop Ranking our Failing Schools
By News Release @ 5:01 AM :: 5344 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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... Ranking schools based largely on test results perpetuates the failed "test and punish" culture of the past -- HSTA ....
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019 |
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HSTA Evaluates Legislative Session
By News Release @ 5:00 AM :: 5064 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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...HB1070: Tenured and probationary teachers will no longer have to pay their own licensure fees....
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Monday, May 13, 2019 |
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"Equality" Act Hits Rewind on the Rights of Women
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 6:42 PM :: 7760 Views :: Education K-12, National News, Family, Higher Education, Military
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... This week Congress will vote on H.R. 5, the Equality Act, sweeping legislation that would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the definition of sex throughout federal law ....
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Tuesday, May 7, 2019 |
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Hawaii DOE Pitches '2030 Promise Plan'
By News Release @ 9:28 PM :: 3843 Views :: Education K-12
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...a final plan will be presented to the Board of Education early next year....
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019 |
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DoE Changes Teacher Evaluations: De-Emphasizes Student Performance
By News Release @ 3:51 AM :: 5343 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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"...In an effort to eliminate the predictive nature of expected targets, EES will focus on student-centered growth that assesses what is valued in the school or Complex Area rather than on Student Learner Outcomes (SLOs)...."
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019 |
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Contract Reopener: HSTA Gets Another $45.6M
By News Release @ 3:41 AM :: 5601 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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“This agreement is worth more than $45 million for our members in salary increases and employer contributions to our health care plan, while establishing a pilot program to give teachers more control over their 21 hours (of professional development time)....”
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019 |
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Legislature Votes to Fund Suicide Prevention
By News Release @ 10:53 PM :: 4746 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care
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...Task force statistics reveal youth, especially on neighbor islands, most at risk....
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Sunday, April 21, 2019 |
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Financial and Compliance Audit of the Department of Education
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:53 PM :: 3942 Views :: Education K-12
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...one significant deficiency in internal control over financial reporting ... two significant deficiencies in internal control over compliance....
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Sunday, April 21, 2019 |
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HIDOE Achieves Success with Job Order Contracting
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3967 Views :: Education K-12
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...they just make a list of the projects and call them “deferred maintenance”....
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019 |
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Is lack of funding the real problem in the Department of Education?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:54 PM :: 6375 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Taxes
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...UIPA Request: DoE Refusing to Release Check Register....
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Saturday, April 13, 2019 |
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30 Years Late: DoE Discovers IDIQ -- ‘Job Order Contracting
By News Release @ 5:54 PM :: 4653 Views :: Education K-12
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...HIDOE completing school roof repairs more quickly under 'new' contracting method....
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Tuesday, April 9, 2019 |
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Hawaii 2nd Worst Financial Knowledge and Education
By Selected News Articles @ 12:05 AM :: 4814 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...2019’s Most & Least Financially Literate States....
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Saturday, April 6, 2019 |
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Kishimoto Demands Media Cover Up Failing Schools
By News Release @ 3:14 AM :: 5414 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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"...branded an “F.” How does that make the hardworking kids, educators and families of that school community feel?...."
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Thursday, April 4, 2019 |
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2019 Graduation Dates
By News Release @ 5:23 PM :: 5652 Views :: Education K-12
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...HIDOE announces its 2019 graduation dates for 64 schools statewide including public charter schools....
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019 |
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Anti-Vaxxer Charter School May Lose Charter over Financial Irregularities
By News Release @ 3:23 PM :: 6564 Views :: Hawaii County , Education K-12, Ethics
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...Kona Pacific Public Charter School, 222 students, 37.4 percent not vaccinated....
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Sunday, March 24, 2019 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 8:33 PM :: 8547 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment, Life, Drugs
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... We believe these bills are unconstitutional ....
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Monday, March 18, 2019 |
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Innovation? Hawaii Ranks 45th
By News Release @ 3:35 PM :: 6605 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education, Small Business
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...Innovation is a principal driver of U.S. economic growth....
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Sunday, March 17, 2019 |
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Blank the Amount, Defect the Date
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 6178 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Higher Education, Taxes
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"SB 1474 Senate Draft 2 that proposes an increase in the GET now specifies '__ per cent or $ _____'"
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Sunday, March 10, 2019 |
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GET increase will add to Hawaii’s high cost of living
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:34 PM :: 5564 Views :: Education K-12, Taxes, Cost of Living
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...The Hawaii Legislature is considering a bill to add 0.5 percent to the 4 percent state general excise tax....
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Sunday, March 10, 2019 |
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Can’t You Spare Half a Penny for Education?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:00 AM :: 4466 Views :: Education K-12, Taxes
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...what we really need to do is fix the inefficiency....
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Friday, March 8, 2019 |
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GE Tax Hike a Lose-Lose Proposition
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:46 PM :: 4447 Views :: Education K-12, Taxes
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...The Hawaii Legislature seems to have learned the wrong lesson from last year’s constitutional amendment debate....
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Sunday, March 3, 2019 |
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HB664 / SB674: Legislators Push Sex Change for Autistic Children
By Andrew Walden @ 9:38 PM :: 7447 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care
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...Millions of dollars from the DoE budget are on the line if HB664 or SB674 “Relating to Gender Identity” becomes law....
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019 |
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What do the FBI, OHA, and Kauai Have in Common?
By Video @ 10:48 PM :: 9097 Views :: Kauai County, Education K-12, Ethics, OHA
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...Illegal Activities? Criminal Coverups? Unsavory Characters?....
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Monday, February 25, 2019 |
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Friday, February 22, 2019 |
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"Everyone" cannot afford another GET surcharge
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:07 PM :: 5913 Views :: Education K-12, Higher Education, Taxes
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...Senate Bill 1474 proposes levying a 0.5 percent surcharge on the general excise and use tax in order to provide a “dedicated funding source” for the DOE and the University of Hawaii....
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019 |
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Screening Committee Selects Three KSBE Trustee Finalists
By News Release @ 3:37 PM :: 4233 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...three finalists to replace Kamehameha Schools Trustee Corbett Kalama whose term ends on June 30, 2019. They are: Anton Krucky, Coralie Chun Matayoshi and Crystal Rose....
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Friday, February 8, 2019 |
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BoE Announces Transsexual Bullying Policy--How Many HSTA Members Will be Fired?
By News Release @ 3:26 AM :: 6348 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Labor
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...Thousands of HSTA Members Could be Targeted by New Anti-Bullying Policy....
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Friday, February 1, 2019 |
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The Inequality of the Equality Act: Concerns from the Left
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:36 PM :: 8401 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment, Higher Education
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...The proposed Equality Act would add “gender identity” to the Civil Rights Act of 1964....
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Thursday, January 31, 2019 |
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Ige Launches 5-Year Plan for Early Childhood Education
By News Release @ 2:47 AM :: 5080 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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...Pre-K: Who Will Control Cash Flow, Positions?....
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019 |
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Tuesday, January 29, 2019 |
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Bullying, Safe Places: 2019 Keiki Caucus Package
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 5556 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care
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...Bills include tobacco restrictions, bullying prevention, safe places for youth....
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Monday, January 21, 2019 |
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School Choice Week--Activities in Hawaii
By News Release @ 3:58 PM :: 3548 Views :: Education K-12
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...78 events and activities across the Aloha State, including open house events at schools, school fairs, homeschool information sessions, and other celebrations....
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Sunday, January 20, 2019 |
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Lesson for UH and DoE--How P3 Can Eliminate Deferred Maintenance
By News Release @ 8:14 PM :: 5933 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii State Government, Higher Education
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...Public agencies tend to delay or not perform preventive and predictive maintenance. Lack of preventive maintenance of assets of any type leads to deterioration that only accelerates as the maintenance is put off....
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Sunday, January 20, 2019 |
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DOE’s Repair Backlog Is How Much Again?
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 3882 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...In a budget briefing at the legislature at about this time last year, Department of Education officials reported that their backlog of repair and maintenance jobs was $293 million, and they were patting themselves on the back because it was a significant drop from the $392 million reported in 2010....
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Friday, January 11, 2019 |
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BoE Will Re-Do Sup’t Vote—May Have Acted Illegally on Other Executive Hires
By News Release @ 12:52 AM :: 5133 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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"...The chairwoman also said the BOE needs to review other past executive-session actions to ascertain whether or not they also should be invalidated...."
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019 |
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Christian Brothers Oust Damien School President--Dispute Over Child Molestation Settlements
By News Release @ 2:00 AM :: 9443 Views :: Education K-12, Religion
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...they resisted a request from the Christian Brothers to set aside over a million dollars in potential costs for sex assault lawsuits from the past....
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019 |
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SPED Parents Asked to Sign up for Medicaid
By News Release @ 1:09 AM :: 4499 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care
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...Medicaid may provide a partial reimbursement for medically and educationally necessary, health-related services when required for a student through his or her Individualized Education Plan....
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Thursday, December 27, 2018 |
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State Robotics Championship Set for January
By News Release @ 2:33 AM :: 3615 Views :: Education K-12
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...Hawaii's top middle and high school robotics teams to compete for five spots at the 2019 VEX Worlds....
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Thursday, December 27, 2018 |
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LifeSmarts: Four High Schools Head to Finals
By News Release @ 2:23 AM :: 3908 Views :: Education K-12
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...Teams from Iolani, Maryknoll, Punahou and Waipahu high schools have earned their spot to compete at the in-person State Competition, which will be held on Saturday, February 9....
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