Everyday I’ll be sharing with you some highlights from what I’m reading so we can be thinking about some of the same issues when we talk.

• Fees for the After-School Plus Program (A+) are going up from $55 to $80 per month. More than 22,000 children are enrolled in the program.

• A city prosecutor asked a judge to bar four Furlough Fridays protesters from entering Gov. Linda Lingle‘s office. The protesters were arrested in April during a sit-in in the governor’s office, and the prosecutor is seeking the bar as a condition for their bail.

• Gubernatorial hopeful Neil Abercrombie shared his proposal to establish a new state department to coordinate early childhood education services.

Some of our members have brought up this issue before, so it seemed timely that it came up in my reading today, too:

• Technology may help us provide greater individual customization for students’ education needs.

Come talk about these and other issues in our education conversation.