A newly updated website produced by the University of Hawaii Community Colleges helps students figure out what type of work provides the best long-term employment prospects.

A recently signed law includes more specifics on what the Hawaii DOE must report in order in order to help narrow the teacher retention gap.

Three Big Island teachers are producing a podcast, “Maestros Vibe,” that covers a range of topics from teacher shortages to the school-to-prison pipeline.

Act 116 provides $1.3 million in annual funding to the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, the licensing entity for Hawaii educators.

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.

Education officials hope this results in more graduating seniors enrolling in college this year, especially those from low-income families.

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.