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Sunday, January 5, 2020 |
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Cooling the Schools: The Reality
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:00 AM :: 3945 Views :: Education K-12, Energy
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...solar powered systems costing an average of $40,000 per classroom have started breaking down or will only work for a short time every day....
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Friday, December 27, 2019 |
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HawaiiLifeSmarts: HS Teams to Compete
By News Release @ 2:10 AM :: 3697 Views :: Education K-12, Family
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...Saturday, February 8, 2020, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Campus Center Ballroom....
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019 |
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Yet Another Campaign for HSTA Pay Hikes
By News Release @ 4:18 AM :: 4699 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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...Just 7 months after HSTA's last contract reopener....
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Saturday, November 23, 2019 |
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Maintenance Backlog? DoE Facilities Branch Administrators Build themselves Houses, Apartment Complex
By Andrew Walden @ 2:12 AM :: 6441 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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...Don’t get the wrong idea. DoE employees aren’t lazy bums. According to reports issued today by the Hawaii State ethics commission, they are working very hard on several very important construction projects—but not for the DoE....
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Friday, November 1, 2019 |
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NAEP reveals Just How Many DoE Students Can't do 'Basic' Work
By News Release @ 3:07 AM :: 4064 Views :: Education K-12
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...37% of DoE 4th Graders and 32% of 8th Graders can’t read at a basic level...31% of DoE 4th Graders and 42% of DoE 8th Graders can’t do basic science....
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019 |
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HSTA wins award for tobacco control efforts
By News Release @ 7:23 PM :: 4972 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care, Labor
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...teachers union says state should ban flavored vape products....
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Saturday, October 19, 2019 |
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OHA Board approves $3 million in grant funding for Hawaiian-focused charter schools
By News Release @ 2:51 PM :: 4085 Views :: Education K-12, OHA
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...Trustees voted today to award Kanu o ka ʻĀina Learning ʻOhana (KALO) with a grant to administer the lion’s share of the $3 million....
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019 |
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Hawaii: State of Childhood Obesity
By News Release @ 3:51 AM :: 5182 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... age 10-17--obesity rate 11.5%....
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Wednesday, October 9, 2019 |
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Robotics League Expands into Micronesian Island of Kosrae
By News Release @ 11:15 PM :: 3149 Views :: Education K-12
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...High school students on the tiny Micronesian island of Kosrae will be building, programming and competing their own advanced robots for the first time....
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Saturday, October 5, 2019 |
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Several schools see proficiency rates in math fall to single digits
By News Release @ 4:42 AM :: 5157 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...Just 3% of Waianae High juniors tested proficient in math last school year, from 11% the year before....
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Thursday, October 3, 2019 |
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Hawaii is one of three states that allows schools to deny students access to school lunches due to unpaid meal debt
By News Release @ 3:41 AM :: 3723 Views :: Education K-12
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...Many schools struggle to determine what actions to take when students cannot pay for school meals....
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 |
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Auditor: DoE School Impact Fee Illegal and Indefensible
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:50 PM :: 6844 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Development, Taxes
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...The DOE’s inconsistent and problematic implementation of the school impact fee law calls into question the relevance and appropriateness of the fees that have been collected to date....
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 |
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Hawaii Public School Spending 16th Highest per Pupil
By Selected News Articles @ 12:05 AM :: 6242 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Cost of Living
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...and teachers salaries are the lowest in USA when adjusted for cost of living....
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Thursday, September 19, 2019 |
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6 Months After Last Raise--DoE Begins Process of Hiking HSTA Pay Again
By News Release @ 4:34 PM :: 4600 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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...Sham Public Meetings Begin Next Round of HSTA Pay Hike Deals....
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Friday, September 13, 2019 |
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MaunaKea: DoE Sup't Reminds Teachers not to 'Coerce' Students
By News Release @ 7:45 PM :: 4760 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment
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...our commitment is to protect our learning environment from approaches that may inappropriately influence or coerce students to a particular political viewpoint....
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Friday, September 13, 2019 |
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State of Play: Youth Sports in Hawaii
By News Release @ 4:14 AM :: 4876 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...a snapshot of how well adults are serving youth through sports, including sections describing the sport ecosystem in each of the four counties....
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Friday, September 13, 2019 |
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Registration Open for 2019-2020 Hawaii LifeSmarts Competition
By News Release @ 3:17 AM :: 3196 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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Tuesday, September 10, 2019 |
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DoE Enrollment Drops Again--Charter School Enrollment Up
By News Release @ 4:26 AM :: 5296 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...This year, Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) schools enrolled 167,454 students (down from 168,152 last year) and charter schools enrolled 11,877 students (up from 11,546 last year)....
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Saturday, September 7, 2019 |
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DoE Releases Draft 2030 Promise Plan
By News Release @ 1:24 AM :: 3310 Views :: Education K-12
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...A feedback window on the draft of that plan is open through Sept. 20, 2019....
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Thursday, August 29, 2019 |
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DoH: New school immunization requirements
By News Release @ 4:01 AM :: 5338 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care, Higher Education
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...additional immunizations will be required for students entering preschool, kindergarten through grade 12, and colleges/universities in Hawai‘i....
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019 |
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LGBT activist: Kamehameha School girls should change in nurse’s station if they don’t like boy in locker room
By News Release @ 9:35 PM :: 8114 Views :: Maui County, Education K-12, Family
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...meanwhile at public schools girls don't have locker rooms for trannies to push their way in to....
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Thursday, August 22, 2019 |
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Cool Schools? DoE Cuts a Little Red Tape
By News Release @ 5:41 PM :: 3664 Views :: Education K-12
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...The Schools Directed AC program enables school leaders to initiate the process by requesting an official electrical assessment from HIDOE’s Office of Facilities and Operations to determine where there is sufficient electrical capacity for AC in classrooms....
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019 |
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Hawaii 3rd-Lowest Percentage of Kids in PreSchool
By Selected News Articles @ 6:31 PM :: 6868 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Small Business, Cost of Living
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...Hawaii Child Care Costs More than College Tuition....
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Monday, August 5, 2019 |
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Lawsuit: Hawaii DoE SPED Suspensions top in USA
By News Release @ 10:16 PM :: 4792 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...Data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection show Hawaiʻi to be the worst state in the nation for public school students with disabilities....
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Sunday, August 4, 2019 |
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OHA seeks nonprofit to administer $3 million charter school grant (again)
By News Release @ 10:36 PM :: 5775 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, OHA
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...Flashback 2017: Help Stop CNHA Grab for Charter School Funds....
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Saturday, July 27, 2019 |
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Mental healthcare in Hawaii: Young minds at risk
By News Release @ 11:27 PM :: 5678 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care
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...The state of mental healthcare for Hawai‘i’s medicaid-eligible youth....
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019 |
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Fighting for Details on How Hawaii DoE Spends $2 Billion
By Selected News Articles @ 7:05 PM :: 4742 Views :: Education K-12, Labor
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"...The problem is the data we provide is based on an accounting system that is more than two decades out of use...."
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Friday, July 19, 2019 |
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Setting Off Hysteria
By Joni Kamiya @ 12:30 PM :: 6907 Views :: Education K-12, Family, GMOs
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...Today my kids learned a lesson about thinking logically the hard way....
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Thursday, July 18, 2019 |
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Hawaii 3rd Lowest Youth Poverty
By Selected News Articles @ 4:37 PM :: 3927 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...2019’s States with the Most At-Risk Youth....
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Friday, July 12, 2019 |
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School Bus Dangers
By Joni Kamiya @ 4:14 AM :: 6607 Views :: Education K-12, Agriculture, GMOs
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...activists have scared parents into believing that they must fear pesticides but ignore other real safety hazards....
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Sunday, July 7, 2019 |
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HSTA Members Grill Dem Presidential Contenders--Demand More Money
By News Release @ 9:25 PM :: 6302 Views :: Democratic Party, Education K-12, Labor
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...First Question: “How are you going to increase salaries...."
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Saturday, June 29, 2019 |
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Better Education for Military-Connected Children
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:55 AM :: 4697 Views :: Education K-12, Military
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...a new nationally representative survey reporting on the experiences and opinions of over 1,200 active-duty military families. ...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019 |
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Judiciary Program Tackles Absenteeism at Keaau Middle School
By News Release @ 10:41 PM :: 4880 Views :: Education K-12, Judiciary
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"...the original intent of the program was to increase school attendance rates, which the program did...."
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Monday, June 17, 2019 |
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Why is the Hawaii Attorney General too busy to prosecute charter school corruption?
By Andrew Walden @ 8:42 PM :: 7718 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics, Law Enforcement
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...The day after an allegedly corrupt charter school director evaded justice, the AG’s office sent out yet another nationally-themed news release--ironically calling on Congress to do something about … corrupt educational institutions....
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Monday, June 17, 2019 |
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Economic Well-Being of Children: Hawaii Ranks 34th
By News Release @ 7:32 PM :: 7010 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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...conditions have shown little to no improvements in more recent years, with the state’s rank for this domain slipping from 30 in 2018 to 34 in 2019....
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Sunday, June 9, 2019 |
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DOE, Fork Over That General Ledger!
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4629 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 :: 4974 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 :: 4864 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 :: 5692 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 :: 6973 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 :: 7444 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 :: 6560 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 :: 4836 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 :: 5096 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 :: 5792 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 :: 5446 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 :: 8478 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 :: 4105 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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