Hawaii Schools Falling Short On Instructional Time

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Not a single one of Hawaii’s high schools has enough instructional time in its schedule to meet a 2014 requirement, the AP reports.

And the Department of Education did not include a plan for getting the schools up to par by then, in a report on the matter requested by the Legislature.

But the new law may change again before 2014 rolls around.

The state House and Senate education chairs told Civil Beat earlier this month that one of their big jobs this coming session is going to be to define what qualifies as instructional time.

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