The Department of Education continues to modify Maui school bus routes as its new bus vendor works to recruit more drivers during what the DOE is calling a crisis driver shortage. Read more
Nearly 40 Hawaii public school graduates have received the state’s first round of awards signifying they have mastered two languages. Read more
Construction crews began tearing down one of the oldest buildings on the University of Hawaii-Manoa campus Friday to make way for a new science building. Read more
As a new school bus vendor on Maui struggles to find credentialed drivers before the school year begins Monday, the Department of Education says it will halt bus routes for nearly 400 students and issue bus passes for use on the island’s public transportation. Read more
Christina Kishimoto begins her new job leading Hawaii public schools today, ahead of Monday’s start of the 2017-18 school year. Read more
A former Hilo judge is recommending the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope project be granted a key state permit for work atop Mauna Kea, ending a lengthy contested case hearing that challenged the $1.4 billion project’s conservation district use permit. Read more
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After five straight years of sliding enrollment at the University of Hawaii’s flagship Manoa campus, university President David Lassner has set an ambitious goal to hold enrollment flat for the upcoming fall and boost it back up to 20,000 students by 2020. Read more
Hawaii saw double-digit drops in the number of international students studying in the islands and the amount these students spent in the economy, according to a new report by the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. Read more
The state Department of Education closed out 11 employee misconduct investigations during the past three months, resulting in five terminations and one resignation in lieu of termination, according to data shared Tuesday with the state school board. Read more
To help address the state’s perennial shortage of qualified public school teachers, the Department of Education is launching a pilot program aimed at encouraging educators already in classrooms, such as educational assistants, to become licensed teachers with a stipend incentive. Read more
A sustainability-focused Honolulu charter school was facing the bleak prospect of shutting down over the summer as school officials scrambled to find a new campus to accommodate its nearly 200 middle schoolers after its Kaimuki lease ended. Read more
A proposed charter school to serve Ewa Beach families got the green light Thursday from the state Public Charter School Commission, but two other Oahu schools were rejected. Read more
The University of Hawaii said today it plans to appoint UH-Hilo Chancellor Donald Straney to a system vice president role, and will launch a national search for the Hawaii island position in the fall. Read more
A year-round career guidance and college-preparatory program that Kamehameha Schools runs for high school students outside of its three campuses is being recognized today with a national counseling award. Read more
Legislators and education officials Thursday celebrated the start of a $90 million renovation project at Solomon Elementary School that will completely overhaul the Wahiawa campus and provide dozens of new classrooms in modern facilities. Read more
Hawaii is among 18 states suing U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over the Department of Education’s decision to put off student loan protections in cases involving deception and misconduct by for-profit universities. Read more
The state Department of Education said it expects to spend nearly $30,000 to remove decaying banyan trees from the McKinley High School campus and replace them with a new species. Read more
The cost of a private-school education in Hawaii continues to climb as the state’s largest independent schools are charging on average 4.5 percent more in tuition for the upcoming school year, according to a Honolulu Star-Advertiser analysis. Read more
Two startup charter schools looking to open on Oahu will have to wait two more weeks to learn their fates; a third appears headed for rejection. Read more
The Hawaii Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favor of the state in denying millions of dollars in back wages and interest that nearly 30,000 public-school substitute and part-time teachers had argued they were owed. Read more
The Hawaii Supreme Court has ruled that several thousand public school substitute teachers are not entitled to millions of dollars in back wages and interest that a lower court had previously awarded. Read more
