Hawaii’s teachers union has embarked on the unprecedented move of asking its members to revisit a contract they rejected earlier this year, as part of an effort to prevent the state from losing a $75 million federal grant it received to carry out educa…
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HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously voted in favor of a plan that would tie teachers’ and principals’ pay to their performance, as well as develop evaluation criteria at Hawaii’s …
Continue Reading →HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously voted in favor of a plan that would tie teachers’ and principals’ pay to their performance, as well as develop evaluation criteria at Hawaii’s roughly 250 public schools.
The boa…
HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaii Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously voted in favor of a plan that would tie teachers’ and principals’ pay to their performance, as well as develop evaluation criteria at Hawaii’s roughly 250 public schools.
The boa…
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With the fate of Hawaii’s $75 million Race to the Top grant hanging in the balance, this is not good news for the Aloha State.
Though there are a couple weeks left in Hawai…
By Guest Blogger Alyson Klein
Two students with Asberger’s—an autism spectrum disorder that can make it tough to interact in social sitatuations—are heavily featured in “Bully,” the new education shock-you-mentary, opening in wide release on Frid…
By Julia Woltman
Hawaii should decentralize its school system into smaller units governed by locally elected school boards, recommends a dramatic reorganization blueprint commissioned by the state’s business leaders.
The wide-ranging document also ca…
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Sometime this month, the Michele half of this blogging duo will give up obsessing about Race to the Top amendments, reading (almost!) every page of the 27 new waiver appli…
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The U.S. Department of Education is now accepting applications for a third round of the Investing in Inn…
Continue Reading →What happens in Hawaii this week will help determine whether the state gets to keep its $75 million Race to the Top grant.
Today begins a four-day inspection by a team of reviewers from the U.S. Department of Education, who will be examining document…