This Oahu Charter School Just Lost Out On $1.4 Million In State Funding 15 Kamalani Academy’s enrollment has grown but the Hawaii charter school commission says it can’t count roughly half the students.
An Oahu charter school more than doubled its student enrollment between the start of the school year and October by offering an unauthorized distance learning option to students that would have meant an extra $1.4 million in funding this year.
On Monday, the Hawaii State Public Charter School Commission unanimously voted to strike 183 kids participating in Kamalani Academy’s virtual program from the official rolls, saying the school did not get clearance to amend its charter to offer a new online program this year.
“It wasn’t about accommodating their existing students with distance learning. It was their implementation of a new program that was the problem,” said Yvonne Lau, interim director of the commission.
