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The state has low overall suspension rates, but still has disparities in which students are getting sent home. Meanwhile, some data has been missing.

Comprehensive and age-appropriate sex ed will be required, although parents can opt out for their children.

Pahoa residents say kids are facing unsafe conditions along Pahoa Bypass Road, more than two years after the state appropriated funding for the work.

The board is expected to weigh in on whether to make schools offer sex education and make suspensions a last resort for discipline problems.

Challengers swept the Hawaii State Teachers Association election, but must now work to heal divisions created during the weeks-long voting process.

Corey Rosenlee will head the Hawaii State Teachers Association starting next month, after garnering the most votes in a June 2 election.

School officials are trying new programs to increase the number of health professionals and improve student access to health care.

UPDATED: UH President David Lassner and UH Hilo Chancellor Donald Straney said they are prepared to “stop talking, start doing.”

UPDATED: Claiming he already won a legitimate vote, a presidential candidate had sought a restraining order against plans for a new election Tuesday.

The Honolulu research and education institution has been run by Charles Morrison since 1998 and now faces significant funding questions.