St. Andrew’s Schools has appointed award-winning educator Winston Sakurai as principal of its elementary school for boys, which is known as The Prep.
Sakurai comes to St. Andrew’s from Hanalani Schools in Mililani, where he has served as principal of the upper school since 2008. He also led the lower school and taught subjects from history to applied engineering during his 17-year tenure there. He will start his new job in July.
Sakurai was named 2016 National Digital Principal of the Year by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. The same year, the Hawaii Association of Secondary School Administrators chose him as the state principal of the year. He was a member of the Board of Education from 1993 to 2002.
Sakurai received his doctorate, master’s and bachelor’s degrees at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Isles lack in licensed child care, study finds
Nearly half of Hawaii’s children under the age of 6 lack access to quality, affordable child care, according to information released Monday by Child Care Aware of America of Arlington, Va.
The state has a shortfall of more than 30,000 licensed child care slots, leaving half of children of working parents under 6 years old without access to quality child care, according to Child Care Aware’s interactive map, which offers an analysis of supply and demand, infant and toddler care, child care cost by region and policy recommendations.
In addition, average child care costs in Hawaii makes up greater than 12 percent of the household median income, with single parents paying 45 percent of their income for infant care, and married parents with two kids living at the poverty line paying 79 percent of their income on center-based care.
In 2016 the average annual cost for an infant was $8,112 for home-based care and $13,704 for center-based child care. Married couples with an infant and a 4-year-old in child care paid $16,284 for home-based care and $22,416 for center- based care per year.
The report is available at bit.ly/2x0Tm6B.
Kauai
Man charged in bank stabbing
Prosecutors have charged a 34-year-old Moloaa man in connection with the stabbing death of his 68-year-old mother on Kauai.
Louis E. Landsman was charged with second-degree murder Monday after he allegedly fatally stabbed his mother, Charlene Landsman of Kapaa, with a large hunting knife at First Hawaiian Bank in Lihue.
He was ordered to appear for a preliminary hearing scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday in Fifth Circuit Court.
Landsman made his initial court appearance Monday. His bail was set at $1 million.
Police said Landsman entered the bank where his mother worked and stabbed her at about 1:15 p.m. Thursday.
Medics transported Charlene Landsman in critical condition to Wilcox Hospital where she died.
Hawaii island
Police shoot at suspected thief
Hawaii County police officers fired multiple shots Sunday at a suspected vehicle thief after the man allegedly drove speeding toward them Sunday in Upper Puna. Police said no one was hurt in the shooting.
Police said that at about 8:55 a.m. Sunday they found a man standing next to a stolen 2002 Toyota Tacoma on a roadway access between Kopua Farm Lots and Fern Acres.
They gave him verbal commands so they could take him into custody. Instead the man got into the truck and “drove at a high rate of speed toward the officers.”
The officers had nowhere to retreat, police said, and fired 13 shots at the pickup truck, hitting the hood and windshield.
The driver, 32, was unhurt, police said.
Officers arrested him on suspicion of terroristic threatening.
