Education More Hawaii Parents Are Pulling Their Kids From DOE To Home School 1 The increase in the first three months of the current school year is a likely sign of the way COVID-19 has impacted school enrollment.
The state Department of Education has seen a surge in the number of students planning to home school this year as COVID-19 continues to spread in the islands.
There was a 43% rise in requests to home school in the first three months of the 2020-21 school year in Hawaii compared with the entire 2019-20 school year, according to data provided by the DOE.
Between July 1 and Sept. 30, Hawaii public schools received 4,755 forms of intent to home school, compared with 3,303 notices for all of last school year, which spanned July 1, 2019 to June 30.
