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