HSTA recent news
Jill Meinecke2023-05-17T17:20:30-10:00May 17, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Donovan Dela Cruz, Hawaii public schools, Justin Woodson, Keith Hayashi, Lincoln Elementary, Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, pre-K, pre-kindergarten, public preschool, Ready Keiki, Sylvia Luke|
Eleven new public pre-K classrooms across the state will open under budget and a year ahead of schedule under Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke’s Ready Keiki initiative, announced during a news conference Wednesday at Lincoln Elementary School on Oʻahu.
Evan Kumasaki2023-05-11T16:19:38-10:00May 11, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: CBA, collective bargaining agreement, contract, Educator Evaluation System, EES, end of the school year, Know Your Rights, marginal, summer programs, summer school, summer work, unsatisfactory|
Terri Inefuku2023-05-09T11:12:19-10:00May 8, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: EL, English Learners program, HIDOE, Office of Student Support Services, Quality Teaching for English Learners, Sheltered Instruction Qualification, SIQ, summer institute, WestEd|
Participants who attend all five days of this institute will receive 30 non-credit seat hours toward their Sheltered Instruction Qualification (SIQ).
Terri Inefuku2023-05-04T12:02:56-10:00May 4, 2023|Categories: Negotiations, News|Tags: Class VIII, contract, HSTA Negotiations Team, Negotiations, pay raises, ratification vote, step increases, teacher pay|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association (HSTA) is pleased to announce that Bargaining Unit 05 employees of the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education and public charter schools have voted to ratify a new four-year contract.
Jill Meinecke2023-04-28T16:13:17-10:00April 28, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: 2023-2027 contract, Bargaining Unit 05, contract funding, Gov. Josh Green, Hawaii State Department of Education, HIDOE, HSTA contract, Jr., Louise Cayetano, Osa Tui, public charter schools, ratification vote|
During a joint House and Senate Conference Committee meeting Friday, state lawmakers approved $219 million in funding for the first two years of Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association’s 2023–2027 contract that takes effect July 1.
Terri Inefuku2023-04-28T16:04:20-10:00April 28, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Chad Keoni Farias, educator housing, lieutenant governor, michelle kidani, School Facilities Authority, Senate Committee on Education, Sylvia Luke, Teacher housing|
Lawmakers plan to appropriate $170 million into the state budget to fund the projects at a variety of locations. The budget proposal and Senate Bill 941 head to the full House and Senate for approval before the Legislative session adjourns next week.
Terri Inefuku2023-04-24T22:24:26-10:00April 24, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Daphna Ehrenhalt, HCR, HSTA STACY Award, human and civil rights committee, inclusion, Keaau Elementary School, Stacy Nishina, Teacher of the Year, teaching excellence, Transgender 101|
This year’s recipient is Daphna Ehrenhalt, a fifth-grade inclusion teacher at Keaʻau Elementary School on Hawaiʻi Island.
Jill Meinecke2023-04-25T13:47:21-10:00April 24, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: Andrea Eshelman, HSTA contract, Jr., Osa Tui, ratification, ratification sites, settlement agreement, tentative agreement|
On Monday, Hawaiʻi State Teacher Association President Osa Tui, Jr. and HSTA’s Deputy Director and Chief Negotiator Andrea Eshelman hosted a member webinar to discuss HSTA’s tentative settlement ahead of the ratification vote Wednesday after school.
Terri Inefuku2023-04-27T10:40:45-10:00April 24, 2023|Categories: Negotiations, News|Tags: 21 hours, across the board, bargaining, Career and Technical Education, Class VIII, collective bargaining agreement, compression, contract, English learners, Hawaiian education, HSTA Negotiations Team, Negotiations, pay raise, salary structure, student discipline, supplementary pay, Teacher Assignment and Transfer Program, teacher protections, teacher working conditions|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association is pleased to announce that we reached a tentative settlement late Friday with the State of Hawaiʻi and the Board of Education for a new four-year contract from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2027.
Terri Inefuku2023-04-17T18:19:39-10:00April 17, 2023|Categories: Negotiations, News|Tags: bargaining, contract, Gov. Josh Green, governor, Hawaii State Department of Education, HSTA Negotiations Team, Keith Hayashi, Negotiations, pay, press conference, schools superintendent, settlement, superintendent, teacher pay, tentative agreement, wages|
Gov. Josh Green, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education Schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi, and Hawai‘i State Teachers Association President Osa Tui, Jr. stressed Monday the importance of a new contract that provides public school educators with stronger wages, and incentives to live and work in Hawaiʻi.
