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The Senate Education Committee is calling on the Board of Education to get rid of the current teacher evaluation system.

Big changes could be ahead, including how new schools are created and how they are overseen.

Teachers made a strong show of support at the Board of Education on Tuesday for their union’s proposed education reforms.

A proposal pushed by the teachers union would have raised $850 million per year. Another bill would have helped pay for caregiver services.

Hawaii has more residents with college degrees than the U.S. average, but they don’t seem to be earning as much money.

Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi is the highest-paid Hawaii Department of Education employee at $200,000. At the other end, office assistants start at $22,824.

The University of Hawaii is hoping a new focus on renewables will finally help it meet energy consumption goals it set years ago.

Hawaii isn’t football-crazy enough to make the head coach our highest-paid public employee, but until he was fired Norm Chow was right up there.

One in three school psychologist positions and one in four speech pathologist positions are vacant within the Department of Education.

The nearly two dozen bills introduced by Rep. Isaac Choy may be indicative of a larger sense of frustration with the university.