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On Tuesday night, the Hawaii Department of Education (HIDOE) sought community feedback on the site selection for King Kamehameha III Elementary School to rebuild its permanent location, after its original campus was lost to the Aug. 8, 2023 wildfire.

The Hawai‘i State Department of Education is reaching out to potential vendors, including farmers and distributors, to gather product information and feedback as part of an effort to increase locally sourced food in public schools.

The Hawaiʻi State Department of Health recently published a COVID-19 Wastewater Report that shows COVID-19 cases have declined since early June and the Omicron subvariant BA.5 is the dominant strain in the state.

A survey about alternatives for a grade-separated pedestrian crossing at Pi‘ilani Highway to serve the new Kūlanihāko‘i High School being built in Kīhei is now available.

Maui, like much of the country, is experiencing a shortage of school bus drivers, with no end in sight.

The long awaited COVID-19 vaccines for keiki under age 5 will be available on all Hawaiian islands in the coming week, according to the Hawai‘i Department of Health.

Supported by a new partnership with the Hawaiʻi Department of Education and the Executive Office on Early Learning, the nonprofit Imua Family Services is opening an inclusion preschool campus at Princess Nāhiʻenaʻena Elementary School in Lahaina.

A Hawaiʻi nonprofit that partners with Cornell University to help high school students prepare for the workforce looks for sponsors for the spring semester, after experiencing a record number of certifications this fall.

The US DOE awards 35 grants through the Native Hawaiian Education Program to provide for programs across the state.

WalletHub has once again concluded that Hawaiʻi college graduates are among the least likely to leave school with debt. And for those who do graduate with debt, they owe among the least in the country.

Nuestro Futuro Foundation donated $80,000 to Maui United Way for The Kaukau 4 Keiki Summer Meals to You Program which will go towards the purchasing of food, distribution and administration efforts to run the program on Maui and Lānaʻi.

Hawai’i-based tech firm Nalu Scientific has received three federal research and development grants totaling $1.55 million for its work on specialized ultra-fast data acquisition circuitry. A chip can enable capturing hundreds of channels of data at resolutions of a billionth of a second.

The event will include performances by the ten youth poet finalists, appearances and performances by several special guests and culminating in the announcement of the young poet selected to be the state’s first youth poet laureate, a title never before granted to a young person in the state.

Hawaiʻi ranks 50th in the nation for participation of low-income children in the national School Breakfast Program, according to the latest national School Breakfast Scorecard.

The Department of Education will be hosting a series of public hearings to gather recommendations on how to improve compensation for Hawaiʻiʻs teachers. 

Two female student-athletes attending James Campbell High School on Oʻahu filed a class action lawsuit in federal court on Thursday against the DOE and the OIA.

Fewer Hawaiʻi public middle school students say they have been bullied at school over the last two years, according to new youth survey results.

The Hawai‘i State Department of Education’s Student Transportation Services Branch has launched a bus stop locator/bus schedule information web application called Infofinder i.

The Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) will hold flu vaccination clinics in 180 public schools statewide from Oct. 15 through Dec. 7, 2018.

Maui High School leads the state in two areas of college and career readiness according to an Indicators Report released by the state DOE for the Class of 2017.