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Act 116 provides $1.3 million in annual funding to the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, the licensing entity for Hawaii educators.

The school pursues some simple strategies for getting kids to school: home visits, phones calls to parents, emergency supplies of clean clothes and rewards like extra recess.

DOE officials said the department needs to cut eligibility because the expansion of a federal free meal service to low-income students “inadvertently” made free bus rides more widely available.

Hawaii is in the middle of the pack for overall child wellbeing, with keiki falling behind in education and economic security markers but tracking ahead of most states in measures of health, family and community.

Not only is there a racial disparity in suspensions, but the days lost to that punishment in the islands far exceed the national average, according to a new analysis.

A nonprofit organization with the willingness and the resources to produce a financial transparency model for education spending is being thwarted by the state.

Education officials hope this results in more graduating seniors enrolling in college this year, especially those from low-income families.

As the number of new teachers coming out of local colleges declines, the state Department of Education hopes “teacher academies” and other strategies will ignite new interest in the profession.

The diversity of Hawaii’s public schools student population isn’t matched by the makeup of the state’s teachers.

DOE is partnering with a developer to help educators with down payments, but other states are going much further by building teacher housing.