ANY HARDENS IN THE FAMILY?

Dr. Donnis H. Thompson virtually founded
women’s collegiate athletics in Hawaii. She
was one of the individuals who inspired my
authorship of federal Title IX legislation by
highlighting the inequities in funding of women’s
collegiate sports. During her 30 years at
the University of Hawaii, Dr. Thompson pioneered
numerous health and athletic programs.

She served as Hawaii’s first woman
Superintendent of Education, was the first
Women’s Director of Athletics at the University
of Hawaii, and authored the innovative ‘‘Vision
of Excellence,’’ a 10-year blueprint for public
education. Dr. Thompson has been a state
and national leader in promoting girls and
women’s participation in sports and in promoting
civil rights.

Donnis Thompson is the recipient of the Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., National Outstanding
Service Award, a member of the University of
Hawaii Hall of Fame, and an Honor Fellow of
the National Association of Girls and Women
in Sports. April 15, 1981 was proclaimed as
‘‘Donnis Thompson Day’’ in the State of Hawaii.
Donnis is a dear friend and one of the
women whose opinion and advice I value
most highly. Today I celebrate her life of
achievement and the positive impact she has
had on improving opportunity for women in
Hawaii.

MOVIN ON UP - HEEEER'S CHERYL

I MEAN MS. IREBARIA.




Kapolei High School’s Leo Club members helped Kapolei Shopping Center collect 321 pounds of food and $148 in cash donations for the Hawaii Foodbank during the Santa Saturday. First row: Cheryl Irebaria (advisor), Ashley Gandiza, Zayla Toledo, Jessica Teixeira, Yoko Liriano. Back row: Kristoffer Saramad, Angelica Harvey, Samantha Cole, and Erica Hammer



Each complaint of mine was a matter of my erroneous "interpretation", as stated by management, while my co-workers complaints were valid descriptions of my "misconduct".

As a result of the accusations, I was suspended, without pay, pending an investigation for, I kid you not, a co-worker accusing me of harassing her by clapping my hands and signing "Pink Cadillac", and another saying, I was teasing her when I asked her to say my name and that of the manager, to see if I could distinguish the two. Another says my arm around her shoulder momentarily makes her uncomfortable. The same had hugged me twice before witnesses.






I was terminated in May 2004, two weeks after the dismissal of the EEOC complaint that was not investigated, and a day after informing management that I overheard a co-worker saying to the one that accused me of harassing her by singing, "we're going to show him the power of p----.

HOW DRY I AM

Local News
Posted on: Thursday, July 10, 2008

More Hawaii restaurants, bars caught serving alcohol to minors in sting

By Mary Vorsino
Advertiser Urban Honolulu Writer

Of the 225 restaurants and bars surveyed in an undercover operation last year, nearly half served alcohol to minors, up from 35 percent in 2006, according to new Honolulu Liquor Commission figures.









Local News
Posted on: Sunday, July 27, 2008

Most Hawaii public high schools fail under No Child Left Behind
Data sought on why 88% of high schools are struggling to meet goals

By Loren Moreno
Advertiser Education Writer

HEY, THEY' RE NOT HERMAN FRAZIER

DUH

Posted on: Friday, January 25, 2008
2,900 state teachers unqualified, firm says


ALL THE MORE AMAZING,THE CHILDREN DID SO WELL,YEAH?

IN ALL FAIRNESS THIS IS NOT SO PICULIAR TO HAWAII ONLY. BUT DO OTHER CHILDREN AND SCHOOLS DO AS WELL WITH "PROFESSIONALS" WHO ARE NOT CAPABLE?


*Two more schools* satisfy No Child - The Honolulu Advertiser
*...*
Hawaii's
Newspaper Online, *Hawaii* news and information from the state's largest
daily newspaper. *...* *Two more schools* satisfy No Child. By Loren Moreno
*...*
2008/Feb/14/

HMMMM.... Only Hawaii? I know. It's just me.

By Alexandre Da Silva
adasilva@starbulletin.com

Rescore needed for school tests
Student assessments are done so frequently that testing services cannot keep pace
STORY SUMMARY »
A testing firm picked by the state Department of Education last year to replace a mistake-prone company will review all the tests it scored for Hawaii this year after finding possible scoring errors in at least 1,682 test booklets.

The Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes for Research says a scanning error by one of its contractors recorded answers in blank reading and math tests for last spring's Hawaii State Assessment.

Things That Make Me Go HMMMMM

The following story reminds me of circumstances at Title Guaranty. During my latter time there, when my complaint was active and shortly before I was terminated, there was a new hire.



His name was Wil Kahapea. On Title Guaranty's documents, he is listed as Asian Pacific Islander. On the EEOC documents, he is listed as Black. Is this the privilege of being "bi - racial"? I remember being told, by the headshake of a well known civil rights lawyer, that it is legal to claim either race when it suits the individual. This could FIX a myriad of administrative problems. I could only wonder it something similar transpired here.



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1 Hawaii schools avoid NCLB penalties By Loren Moreno


About 30 schools filed appeals said Robert McClelland, head of the Department of Education's Systems Accountability Office.



One of those schools, Wheeler Middle, succeeded in getting all No Child sanctions lifted, said principal Brenda Vierra-Chun.


Overall, Wheeler had met its AYP goals, with 76 percent of students proficient in reading and 28 percent proficient in math. However, initial results showed that the percentage of black students proficient in math had failed to reach the federal goal.

Vierra-Chun said she appealed after finding that some of the students were not counted appropriately.



While a school may achieve its campuswide goals in math and reading, it also is required to meet proficiency goals in subcategories such as disadvantaged students, students with limited English proficiency, and various ethnic groups.

If students are not grouped accurately, the test results can get skewed and result in a school not meeting AYP.



Appeals are generally based on whether students are grouped into appropriate categories, McClelland said.



Vierra-Chun said, "What alarmed me was when I saw that such a low percentage of our black students met AYP

"I started to look at individual student scores and found that a lot of our African-American kids were marked as Asian/Pacific Islander, she said.



After gathering the correct data, Vierra-Chun submitted them to the DOE.



This is not the first time that Wheeler has appealed its AYP status Last year, Vierra-Chun said, the school appealed based on the students being counted in the "disadvantaged" category.