At Hanakaoʻo Park in Lahaina, 15 students crowded around a table, plunging their hands into piles of black kukui, still sandy and wet from the ocean. The students identified the smoothest, shiniest nuts, then proudly showed off their finds to Kauna’oa Garcia. Garcia, an elementary school teacher in the state’s Hawaiian language immersion program, plans … Continue reading Parents Push For Lahaina’s Hawaiian Immersion Program To Get Its Own Campus