Hawaii: Charter School Will Close Amid Charges of Financial Mismanagement
In Hawaii, the state revoked the charter of a school on the Big Island, alleging financial mismanagement and enrollment errors. Charters open, charters close. The...
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Hawaii: Why Import Corporate Reformers from the Mainland?
Andy Jones’s a high school teacher in Hawaii. He writes here with profound dismay about the search for a new superintendent for the schools of...
Hawaii: Michelle Rhee and Kevin Johnson Arrive to Give Advice about Education
I have been bombarded by people in Hawai who are concerned that Michelle Rhee and her husband, the former Mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson, have...
Andy Jones: Hawaii’s Education Future Is Looking Brighter
Andy Jones is a high school language arts teacher in Hawaii. The public school teachers in Hawaii have been energetic in stopping the worst extremes...
Hawaii: Sorry, But the Nutty Teacher Evaluations Are Still Imposed
Earlier today, I posted a piece by Andy Jones, a high school language arts teacher in Hawaii. In the introduction, I mistakenly said that Hawaii...
Good News! Hawaii Drops Test-Based Teacher Evaluation!
The test-based teacher evaluation that was a hallmark of the Obama administration’s Race to the Top is slowly sinking into the ocean (or the desert)....
Hawaii: Educators Disparage SBAC Tests
This post arrived from Randall Roth, a one of the signers of the article: The following commentary appears in the October 8 edition of the...
Hawaii: Teacher Fights New Evaluation System–and Wins!
Hawaii applied for and won a Race to the Top grant. So, of course, Hawaii was required to create a new teacher evaluation system that...