The school pursues some simple strategies for getting kids to school: home visits, phones calls to parents, emergency supplies of clean clothes and rewards like extra recess.

DOE officials said the departments needs to cut eligibility because the expansion of a federal free meal service to low-income students “inadvertently” made made free bus rides more widely available.

Not only is there a racial disparity in suspensions, but the days lost to that punishment in the islands far exceed the national average, according to a new analysis.

As the number of new teachers coming out of local colleges declines, the state Department of Education hopes “teacher academies” and other strategies will ignite new interest in the profession.

The diversity of Hawaii’s public schools student population isn’t matched by the makeup of the state’s teachers.

DOE is partnering with a developer to help educators with down payments, but other states are going much further by building teacher housing.

The school defies Hawaii’s revolving door of teachers at many isolated schools, with the vast majority staying more than five years.

Students at rural or lower-income schools are less likely to be taught by experienced, fully qualified teachers than elsewhere, DOE data shows.

Christina Kishimoto received a positive evaluation from the state Board of Education.

The Education Institute of Hawaii is trying to pressure the state into providing information for a financial database to shed light on school funding practices.

The teachers union president echoes the school superintendent footsteps by criticizing a monthly magazine’s annual ranking of public schools.

A new analysis compares how teacher salaries in the U.S. stack up against each other.