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Hawaii’s Charter School Overseers Are Feeling ‘Under Assault’ Civil Beat/2010

Hawaii’s Charter School Overseers Are Feeling ‘Under Assault’

Amid complaints and the resignation of their director, Charter School Commission members face an uncertain future.

Embattled Leader of Charter School Oversight Agency To Resign

Embattled Leader of Charter School Oversight Agency To Resign

The relationship between the commission and charter school leaders has become increasingly contentious in the last year.

Collective Bargaining For Grad Students? Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Collective Bargaining For Grad Students?

Measures before the Hawaii Legislature would create a unit for graduate student assistants employed at the University of Hawaii.

Hawaii Teachers Kick Off ‘Do-Or-Die’ Campaign For Education Reform Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Hawaii Teachers Kick Off ‘Do-Or-Die’ Campaign For Education Reform

Legislative proposals would dramatically change public education in Hawaii, but paying for them is a problem.

Faculty Members Take On UH Over Claims Of Broken Promises, Retribution University of Hawaii

Faculty Members Take On UH Over Claims Of Broken Promises, Retribution

A case heard Thursday by the Hawaii Labor Relations Board alleges the university didn’t honor key conditions of one professor’s hire letter and retaliated against another.

Committee OKs Bill To Shield UH Regents From Revealing Financial Info Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat

Committee OKs Bill To Shield UH Regents From Revealing Financial Info

Bankers, former regents and contractors supported the measure while the Ethics Commission and University of Hawaii faculty union opposed it.

Living Hawaii: Can You Afford To Be A Teacher In The Islands? Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Living Hawaii: Can You Afford To Be A Teacher In The Islands?

The cost of living weighs so heavily on schoolteachers that many fear they will never get ahead if they stay here.

The Heat Is On State Lawmakers To Cool Off School Classrooms PF Bentley/Civil Beat

The Heat Is On State Lawmakers To Cool Off School Classrooms

A teachers union proposal to raise taxes for wide-ranging education improvements is a long shot, but just about everyone is talking about more air conditioning.

Do Parents And Teachers Really Have A Say In How Schools Run? Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Do Parents And Teachers Really Have A Say In How Schools Run?

A decade after Act 51 mandated that each school in Hawaii have a school community council, it’s unclear how well the system is — or isn’t — working. 

Falling Apart: Politics At Play With UH Maintenance Backlog? Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Falling Apart: Politics At Play With UH Maintenance Backlog?

The Legislature says it’s a management problem, but the university maintains it’s an issue of funding. Meanwhile, campus facilities continue to crumble to the detriment of students.