Terri Inefuku2024-07-12T11:53:44-10:00July 12, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Best in Show, communication, communications awards, editing, HSTA, maui wildfires, SEAComm, State Education Association, State Education Association Communicators, union, video, writing|
The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association’s Communications Department took top honors at the national level for its work in writing, video, and digital campaigns. HSTA was recognized with 18 first-place awards and best-in-show honors at the State Education Association Communicators conference in Philadelphia in June.
Terri Inefuku2024-07-04T13:45:00-10:00July 4, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: donations, King Kamehameha III Elementary, Lahaina, mahalo, maui wildfires, NEA RA|
Mahalo to all of our NEA ʻohana for your unprecedented outpouring of support and generosity for our members and retirees in the days, weeks, and months following the fires.
Terri Inefuku2024-05-23T20:29:49-10:00May 23, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Board of Education, differential, fire relief leave bank, King Kamehameha III Elementary, Lahaina, Lahaina Intermediate, Lahainaluna High, maui wildfires, mental health, Princess Nāhiʻenaʻena Elementary, testimony|
The Hawaiʻi Board of Education promised action Thursday after more than a dozen Maui teachers flew to Oʻahu to ask for more support following devastating wildfires last August.
Jill Meinecke2024-05-17T10:29:17-10:00May 15, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Biden-Harris administration, Dr. Jill Biden, first lady Jill Biden, HSTA Convention, Mary Kusler, maui wildfires, member delegates, National Education Association, pro-labor, pro-union, public education|
In front of over 200 Hawai’i State Teachers Association member delegates at the 51st annual state convention, National Education Association (NEA) Senior Director of Advocacy Mary Kusler in her keynote speech posed a question: “Why do we do politics in the union?”
Jill Meinecke2024-05-17T10:09:55-10:00May 14, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: collective bargaining, contract ratification, Gov. Josh Green, HSTA Convention, HSTA Maui Chapter, Joan Husted, Jr., maui wildfires, Osa Tui, union advocacy|
Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association President Osa Tui, Jr. honored the union’s foundations while advocating for a unified future at HSTA’s 51st annual state convention on April 13.
Jill Meinecke2024-05-07T10:22:50-10:00May 7, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: fire relief leave bank, Hawaii Board of Education, Hawaii State Department of Education, Maui, Maui chapter, maui wildfires, personal leave, shared leave, sick leave|
The HSTA Maui Chapter is organizing a petition asking HSTA members to say they are willing to support their colleagues who have been affected by the fires and would be willing to donate to a shared Fire Relief Leave Bank.
Terri Inefuku2024-04-26T07:51:39-10:00April 25, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Cassie-Ann Jacinto, friend of youth award, Glen Pascual, HCR, human and civil rights committee, Lahaina, Lahainaluna High School, maui wildfires, photography|
When Glen Pascual wraps up his day as corporation counsel for the County of Maui, he packs up his bag, gets in his car, and makes the hour-long drive from Wailuku to Lahaina. Once there, he assembles his gear and jumps into action as a volunteer photographer for the Lahainaluna High School community.
Jill Meinecke2024-03-27T10:55:37-10:00March 27, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Gov. Josh Green, HSTA President Osa Tui, Jr., King Kamehameha III Elementary, King Kamehameha III Elementary at Pulelehua, Lahaina wildfires, maui wildfires, Princess Nāhi‘ena‘ena Elementary, Rep. Jill Tokuda, Rep. Justin Woodson, Sen. Mazie Hirono, Warren Haruki|
Teachers, staff and students at Maui’s King Kamehameha III Elementary School now have a new campus to call home.
Terri Inefuku2024-03-14T14:06:53-10:00March 14, 2024|Categories: News|Tags: Kamehameha III Elementary, Lahaina, Lahainaluna High, maui wildfires, temporary campus|
Teachers, staff and students from Kamehameha III Elementary School, which was destroyed in the fire, are scheduled to move into a newly constructed temporary campus at the end of March.
Jill Meinecke2023-12-21T17:01:20-10:00December 21, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: federal funding, FEMA, Hawaii Board of Education, Hawaiian immersion, Jr., Keith Hayashi, King Kamehameha III Elementary, Lahaina, Maui, maui wildfires, Osa Tui, Princess Nāhiʻenaʻena, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers|
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to complete construction on a temporary site for King Kamehameha III Elementary at Pulelehua on Maui at the end of February.
