#Castle High School

Maui public schools included in flawed, $100 million-plus solar air-conditioning initiative

In 2016, then Gov. David Ige told state lawmakers that he was committed to cooling 1,000 classrooms by the end of the year. Lawmakers agreed to do so with $100 million. But it didn’t work, according to a blunt and unsparing report by the Office of the State Auditor.

Community coalition celebrates passage of school meal expansion bill

The Hawaiʻi State Legislature gave final approval Wednesday to Senate Bill 1300, to expand free school meal access to keiki in the ALICE population over the next two school years.