Education

Hawaiʻi Is Making A Big Push To Increase College Enrollment. Will It Work? Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Hawaiʻi Is Making A Big Push To Increase College Enrollment. Will It Work?

A new program offers Hawaiʻi seniors guaranteed admissions to nine University of Hawaiʻi campuses, but advocates say more needs to be done if UH really wants to reach more disadvantaged students.

Hawaiʻi Mom Sues Boys & Girls Club For Not Protecting Child From Abuse Suevon Lee/Civil Beat

Hawaiʻi Mom Sues Boys & Girls Club For Not Protecting Child From Abuse

Staffers didn’t intervene or contact authorities after a 10-year-old boy complained he was sexually assaulted by another student in the program, the lawsuit says.

Viral Bullying Videos Are Sign Of Bigger Problem In Hawaiʻi Schools Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

Viral Bullying Videos Are Sign Of Bigger Problem In Hawaiʻi Schools

Social media is amplifying conflicts and normalizing bad behavior as teens film fights and post them online to draw hundreds of views and comments. 

Kamehameha Schools Sued Over Native Hawaiian Admissions Policy AP Photo/Mengshin Lin/2025

Kamehameha Schools Sued Over Native Hawaiian Admissions Policy

Students for Fair Admissions founder Ed Blum said he has received death threats over his attempt to strike down the policy.

Hawaiʻi DOE Wants Another $30M For A Facility That Hasn’t Been Built Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Hawaiʻi DOE Wants Another $30M For A Facility That Hasn’t Been Built

The Department of Education is pinning its local food buying goals on a central facility, and the budget is getting bigger and bigger.

Education Department Layoffs Hit Special Ed And Civil Rights Offices AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin/2025

Education Department Layoffs Hit Special Ed And Civil Rights Offices

The layoffs would cut the agency’s workforce by nearly a fifth and leave it reduced to less than half its size when Trump took office

Hawaiʻi Parents Are Hopping Fences To Sneak Into Playgrounds Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Hawaiʻi Parents Are Hopping Fences To Sneak Into Playgrounds

Lawmakers have pushed schools to open their facilities for recreational use, but the education department has raised concerns about liability and safety.

This School Wanted Officers On Campus. 3 Others Will Get Them First David Croxford/Civil Beat/2023

This School Wanted Officers On Campus. 3 Others Will Get Them First

Representatives of Nānākuli High and Intermediate School say they have been left out of Oʻahu’s upcoming school resource officer pilot program.

Religious Waivers Soar For Child Vaccines On Kauaʻi Getty Images/iStockphoto

Religious Waivers Soar For Child Vaccines On Kauaʻi

The low immunization rate at Kauaʻi schools is tied to a rise in easy-to-obtain religious waivers.

1 In 4 Hawai‘i Students Are Chronically Absent From School Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

1 In 4 Hawai‘i Students Are Chronically Absent From School

Five years after the pandemic upended attendance, many schools are still struggling to get kids to show up regularly.