Education

Data Dive: Only Half Of Hawaiʻi High School Seniors Apply For Financial Aid The state has seen a boost recently in the application rate for federal financial aid, but it still falls short of its pre-pandemic level.

July 7, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/07/half-hawaii-high-school-seniors-apply-financial-aid/

AI integration drives new approaches in isle education

July 7, 2025 0

https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/07/07/hawaii-news/ai-integration-drives-new-approaches-in-isle-education/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news

Education

DOE Faces Big Funding Shortfall For School Repairs And Construction Lawmakers are wary about giving the education department more money and control over construction funds after leaders have struggled to spend millions of dollars in recent years.

July 3, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/07/doe-faces-big-funding-shortfall-for-school-repairs-and-construction/

Hilo student awarded $10K scholarship

June 28, 2025 0

https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/06/28/features/community-connection/hilo-student-awarded-10k-scholarship/

How Hawaiʻi’s School Transfer System Leaves Students Behind Geographic exceptions were intended to give families more flexibility with their children’s education, but the process may be exacerbating educational inequality.

June 25, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/06/hawaii-school-transfer-system-leaves-students-behind/

Luke signs bills expanding preschool eligibility

June 25, 2025 0

https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/06/25/hawaii-news/luke-signs-bills-expanding-preschool-eligibility/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news

Data Dive: Why New Hawaiʻi Teachers Can’t Afford To Buy A House The cost of renting and purchasing a home in Honolulu has grown at three times the rate of first-year teachers’ salaries since 2019.

June 19, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/06/data-dive-why-new-hawai%ca%bbi-teachers-cant-afford-to-buy-a-house/

State announces addition of 50 preschool classrooms

June 18, 2025 0

https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/06/18/hawaii-news/state-announces-addition-of-50-preschool-classrooms/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news

Denby Fawcett: UH Professors Turn To Handwritten Exams To Thwart AI Cheating Low-tech “blue books” offer a way to curb high-tech chatbot cribbing.

June 17, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/06/denby-fawcett-uh-professors-turn-to-handwritten-exams-to-thwart-ai-cheating/

Keauhou Canoe Club awards 3 scholarships

June 16, 2025 0

https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/06/16/sports/keauhou-canoe-club-awards-3-scholarships/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news

DOE Called For 12 New Schools In ‘Ewa A Decade Ago. It’s Built 2 The education department has been unable to keep up with the housing boom in ʻEwa and Kapolei – even as developers contribute land and money to help build new schools.

June 13, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/06/doe-called-for-12-new-schools-in-ewa-a-decade-ago-its-built-2/

Free meals for keiki offered at 15 Big Island schools

June 11, 2025 0

The schools on Hawaii Island participating in the SSO program this summer are: Hilo High; Honoka‘a High and Intermediate; Kapi‘olani...

Hawaii’s math teaching deemed ‘unacceptable’

June 7, 2025 0

https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/06/07/hawaii-news/hawaiis-math-teaching-deemed-unacceptable/

Waimea Athletics awards first college scholarship

May 29, 2025 0

https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/05/29/sports/waimea-athletics-awards-first-college-scholarship/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news

Lunch Debt And Book Fines Are The Last Barriers To Graduation Hawaiʻi requires high school seniors pay off school debts before donning a cap and gown. Not all families can afford to.

May 28, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/05/lunch-debt-and-book-fines-are-the-last-barriers-to-graduation/

Hawaiʻi Lacks Resources For Homeless College Students The effort to help struggling students at the University of Hawaiʻi is led by volunteer faculty and staff. Other states allocate money to help college students alleviate hardships.

May 23, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/05/hawai%ca%bbi-lacks-resources-for-homeless-college-students/

How UH Is Trying To Hold Onto Hawaiʻi’s High School Grads Federal data shows a decline in students staying home for college. The University of Hawaiʻi is trying to reverse that trend.

May 22, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/05/how-uh-is-trying-to-hold-onto-hawai%ca%bbis-high-school-grads/

Eric Stinton: Students Need A Better Reason Not To Cheat Using AI Kids have been told the purpose of an education is to get ahead. Now is the time to rethink the value of classroom learning.

May 20, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/05/eric-stinton-students-need-a-better-reason-not-to-cheat-using-ai/

Student Debt Puts Hawaiʻi’s Older Adults At Risk Of Social Security Cuts People who stopped paying their student loans during the Covid-19 pandemic could soon start facing reductions in their monthly Social Security benefits.

May 19, 2025 0

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/05/student-debt-puts-hawai%ca%bbis-older-adults-at-risk-of-social-security-cuts/

2025 Kaukau for Keiki – Program Dates Upcoming Registration Dates

May 18, 2025 0

2025 Kaukau for Keiki - Program Dates Upcoming Registration Dates Hawaiʻi Island — Vibrant Hawaiʻi is proud to continue...

Education

Data Dive: Only Half Of Hawaiʻi High School Seniors Apply For Financial Aid The state has seen a boost recently in the application rate for federal financial aid, but it still falls short of its pre-pandemic level.

AI integration drives new approaches in isle education

DOE Faces Big Funding Shortfall For School Repairs And Construction Lawmakers are wary about giving the education department more money and control over construction funds after leaders have struggled to spend millions of dollars in recent years.

Hilo student awarded $10K scholarship

How Hawaiʻi’s School Transfer System Leaves Students Behind Geographic exceptions were intended to give families more flexibility with their children’s education, but the process may be exacerbating educational inequality.

Luke signs bills expanding preschool eligibility

Data Dive: Why New Hawaiʻi Teachers Can’t Afford To Buy A House The cost of renting and purchasing a home in Honolulu has grown at three times the rate of first-year teachers’ salaries since 2019.

State announces addition of 50 preschool classrooms

Denby Fawcett: UH Professors Turn To Handwritten Exams To Thwart AI Cheating Low-tech “blue books” offer a way to curb high-tech chatbot cribbing.

Keauhou Canoe Club awards 3 scholarships

DOE Called For 12 New Schools In ‘Ewa A Decade Ago. It’s Built 2 The education department has been unable to keep up with the housing boom in ʻEwa and Kapolei – even as developers contribute land and money to help build new schools.

Free meals for keiki offered at 15 Big Island schools

Hawaii’s math teaching deemed ‘unacceptable’

Waimea Athletics awards first college scholarship

Lunch Debt And Book Fines Are The Last Barriers To Graduation Hawaiʻi requires high school seniors pay off school debts before donning a cap and gown. Not all families can afford to.

Hawaiʻi Lacks Resources For Homeless College Students The effort to help struggling students at the University of Hawaiʻi is led by volunteer faculty and staff. Other states allocate money to help college students alleviate hardships.

How UH Is Trying To Hold Onto Hawaiʻi’s High School Grads Federal data shows a decline in students staying home for college. The University of Hawaiʻi is trying to reverse that trend.

Eric Stinton: Students Need A Better Reason Not To Cheat Using AI Kids have been told the purpose of an education is to get ahead. Now is the time to rethink the value of classroom learning.

Student Debt Puts Hawaiʻi’s Older Adults At Risk Of Social Security Cuts People who stopped paying their student loans during the Covid-19 pandemic could soon start facing reductions in their monthly Social Security benefits.

2025 Kaukau for Keiki – Program Dates Upcoming Registration Dates

Major transmission line restored as Hawaiian Electric returns power to Pāhala

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DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY – HURRICANE LALA RECOVERY UPDATE

More than 1,400 customers restored as Hawaiʻi Island recovery efforts continue Additional equipment, resources arrive to support ongoing restoration

HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY DAILY UPDATE U.S. Geological Survey Wednesday, August 26, 2026, 9:00 AM

13-Year-Old Spends 300 Hours 3D Printing a Custom Wheelchair for a Toddler

Lawsuit Alleges Hawaiʻi Prison Staff Enabled Gang Attack The suit alleges corrections officers at the state’s largest prison gave members of a prison gang access to an inmate in protective custody, who was then beaten.

It’s True: Power Outages Happening More Often In Hawai‘i The power isn’t just going out more frequently. It’s staying out for longer.

Hawaiʻi Ranchers Welcome Rain But Endure Weather Whiplash Broken fences, destroyed roads, new gulches, dead cattle and lost land may soon be the price to pay for greener grass as climate change aggravates extreme weather events.

Dual U.S. and Canadian Citizen and Alleged Repeat Child Sexual Predator Arrested for Sexual Exploitation of a Child in Hawaii

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