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The unprecedented move of releasing the union’s negotiating positions — and the state’s pay offer — brings a new level of transparency.

A set of bills aim to make the state pay UH tuition for needy students.

A new report reveals that hiring practices for some employees have gotten worse, not better, in the past four years.

Hawaii residents flooded Capitol Hill offices with letters, calls and emails opposing school-voucher advocate Betsy DeVos as secretary of education.

The measures would ask voters to approve taxes that would be dedicated to paying for school operations, including teacher salaries.

The House Education Committee will wait til next week to decide whether voters should be asked to raise taxes to pay for teachers.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association is proposing a surcharge on residential investment property and visitor accommodations.

The teachers union and a Maui state representative will push proposals to better fund remote neighbor island schools.

The governor’s office won’t confirm it, but the union says the offer is 1 percent lump sum payments in each of the next two years.

Jill Tokuda complains that State Public Charter School Commission is the only state agency to hold its funds in private accounts.