Recruiting For Race To The Top
UPDATED 2/8/11 4:20 p.m.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that the department was hiring more than 100 new people for Race to the Top-related jobs. Department spokeswoman Sandy Goya clarified later that not all of those positions are related to the effort. Read a full explanation.
To keep Hawaii’s Race to the Top efforts on track, the department of education announced openings for more than 10 new people.
The state will receive about $75 million over the next four years to help fund key education reforms promised in last year’s successful federal grant application. The call for applicants is one of the first visible actions the department has taken since it was announced a Race winner.
The department approximately 10 online. An announcement near the top of the department’s website also advertises the openings.
Education Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi last year began reorganizing the department and creating new positions to oversee the reforms, which she hopes will permanently improve the school system. Matayoshi was originally brought into the education department as deputy superintendent specifically to help with the state’s Race to the Top application.
The new positions will account for less than .01 percent of the department’s 21,900 employees. Civil Beat has asked the department for more detail about the positions.
How much Race money will be used to pay the new employees won’t be clear until they are actually hired, department spokeswoman Sandy Goya told Civil Beat. Matayoshi said the Race grant money will also come to Hawaii on a “draw-down” basis from the U.S. Department of Education, meaning that it will become available as the state spends it.
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