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Carbone Speaks Out About His Resignation From UH Cancer Center Courtesy UH Manoa

Carbone Speaks Out About His Resignation From UH Cancer Center

Michele Carbone totes his successes while dismissing critics as “jealous.” He also says he’s been the subject of “false attacks” by the media.

Kim Coco: Hawaii’s 4-Year-Olds Adrift in Election’s Aftermath Courtesy of For the Future of Our Keiki

Kim Coco: Hawaii’s 4-Year-Olds Adrift in Election’s Aftermath

After a promising start four years ago, the state’s effort to reform early childhood educations lies in ruins. What will rise from them?

Michele Carbone Steps Down as Head of UH Cancer Center PF Bentley/Civil Beat

Michele Carbone Steps Down as Head of UH Cancer Center

Numerous faculty members at the center had complained about Carbone, who was also implicated in the firing of UH Manoa Chancellor Tom Apple.

UH Officials Talk Budget Woes at Civil Cafe Gene Park/Civil Beat

UH Officials Talk Budget Woes at Civil Cafe

Panelists were UH Manoa Chancellor Robert Bley-Vroman, Regent Jeff Portnoy, Faculty Senate Chair Ron Bontekoe, undergraduate student president Stephen Nishihara.

Meet the University of Hawaii’s Newest Lobbyists PF Bentley/Civil Beat

Meet the University of Hawaii’s Newest Lobbyists

Jennifer Sabas, the late U.S. Sen. Dan Inouye’s former chief of staff, will try to use her influence to scrape up more money for the university.

UH Commits to Keeping Teaching Assistants Amid Student Protest Cory Lum/Civil Beat

UH Commits to Keeping Teaching Assistants Amid Student Protest

University of Hawaii graduate students have a list of demands as officials work through the budget crisis.

Preschool Measure: Big Spending by Just a Few Groups For the Future of Our Keiki/Good Beginnings Alliance

Preschool Measure: Big Spending by Just a Few Groups

Question No. 4 asks whether the state should change the constitution and allow public money to be used for private preschools.

Teachers Blast TIME Mag for Cover Portraying Them as ‘Rotten Apples’ alison e dunn via Flickr

Teachers Blast TIME Mag for Cover Portraying Them as ‘Rotten Apples’

As of Wednesday afternoon, the American Federation of Teachers had garnered more than 90,000 signatures on a petition asking TIME’s editors to apologize for this week’s “misleading” cover.

Schatz Endorses Preschool Ballot Campaign PF Bentley/Civil Beat

Schatz Endorses Preschool Ballot Campaign

The campaign is advocating for Question No. 4, which would allow the state to spending public funding on private preschool programs.

New Report Finds “Testing Overload in America’s Schools” Pink Sherbert Photography/Flickr

New Report Finds “Testing Overload in America’s Schools”

The report from the Center for American Progress found that schools test students once per month on average.