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Only one in 10 public school students in the class of 2015 earned college-ready marks in all four core subjects.

UPDATED: Dawn Kaui Sang’s new role brings big challenges as she looks to redefine language immersion programs and make sure every student in the state learns about Hawaiian culture.

The Department of Education is hiring two more investigators to help reduce how long it takes to investigate cases of possible employee misconduct.

Could economic disruption reach some of Hawaii’s most prominent companies and lower our cost of living in the islands?

Despite increases in funding and numerous efforts at reform, students with disabilities are falling farther behind their mainstream peers. Some say the downturn started when federal court supervision of the state system ended.

Finding enough instructors is an annual struggle in the islands, and it’s most difficult in remote and low-income areas.

The University of Hawaii is studying the psychological and emotional stresses of long space missions, and how to best support a crew on a voyage to Mars.

In a bright note, the report found that Hawaii has the fifth-safest school system.

The state relies on federal funding to partially offset the cost of educating the children of service members, but difficulties with tracking how many such students are enrolled could be costing it millions of dollars.

Educators were asked this week to identify measurements of achievement for young Native Hawaiians in the coming decade. The answer had nothing to do with standardized test scores.