Saturday, January 5, 2019

UPDATE

May 16, 2018: An email I sent to the National Republican Congressional

Committee., along with a reply from them with this same info,   
found under keyword search (nrcc ), only shows  1 result  -
the most current. Before I left the library this afternoon,
there were 2.

Saturday, September 10, 2016

NEED YOUR HELP IN THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

NOT JUST HAWAII

 
 
 
Who'd have known?

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

HAWAII'S CHILDREN SHAFTED AGAIN

A HISTORY LESSON: TOO BAD HAWAII's NOT THE STUDENT

Ed. Dept. Takes Action Against Hawaii for Race to Top Stumbles
http://bit.ly/166vgDi

 

Race to The Bank: HSTA Gets 36.9% Raise, Threatens Suit to Block Accountability
http://bit.ly/12KygAr

Hawaii schools scale back extended learning time
http://bit.ly/119S7F2


"Last year's approval of extended learning time for low-performing schools on Oahu's Waianae coast and in the Kau, Keaau and Pahoa areas of the Big Island, along with the Hawaii School for the Deaf and the Blind, was heralded as a stride toward progress on school reforms that won Hawaii a $75 million federal Race to the Top grant.

The agreement approved by 80 percent of the more than 1,100 teachers in those schools called for about an hour more per day, Monday through Thursday, and 12 additional days of teacher training. That represents about 18 percent more in compensation for teachers."


Hawaii teachers approve 4-year agreement http://yhoo.it/16Q12EC


Hawaii gets approval for education law waiver http://bit.ly/119SBea

Saturday, April 27, 2013

GO GET 'EM, HAWAII

HAWAII LEGISLATORS pass on state-funded preschool that would have helped thousands, in favor of expanding child care program to OVER 900 .


Thursday, September 27, 2012

AFTER SUCH IMPROVEMENT

On September 6, the Bureau of Indian Education, Alaska, Alabama, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Puerto Rico, and West Virginia submitted requests to the U.S. Department of Education for waivers from key provisions of No Child Left Behind.



18% of all HAWAII public school students chronically absent. 18% = 31,000 statewide.

HAWAII POPULATION - 1,374,810 (2011 est)

Even more REMARKABLE, the test scores and strides they continue to make under NCLB. Why then request a waiver?


Feds notice improvement by state DOE

By Nanea Kalani

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 12, 2013

Federal education officials have partially lifted the "high-risk" status of Hawaii's $75 million Race to the Top grant, citing "substantial progress" in two so-called assurance areas of the state's sweeping school reform plan.

"This is a turning point for us as we continue our strategic transformation in our public schools," Hawaii Department of Education Superintendent Kathryn Mata­yo­shi said in a statement Monday. "The progress being made gives us great hope that federal officials will acknowledge the improvements being made in the other areas of the grant."

Gotta get the grub in line:


                                 BEWARE THE INTERNAL AUDIT, REVIEW, INQUIRY


An internal Department of Education audit has found an "unacceptable" lack of oversight, monitoring and accountability of the state's $92 million school food services program.



☞Numerous employees not needed - 62/2012

Many staff don't fill our proper forms - purchases requisitions; inventory records; collections

Service managers have conflicting tasks - ordering; receiving; inventory

School Food Services Branch doesn't review purchases during annual review

“We’re running a 92 million business on 3 by 5 cards.”




 POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 20, 2013




"A federal judge granted preliminary approval Tuesday to a proposed $5.75 million class-action settlement of a lawsuit accusing the state of allowing and covering up years of sexual abuse of students at Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind.



The plaintiffs claim that as many as 35 current and former students were abused on the Kapahulu public school’s campus and on school buses since Aug. 10, 2001."