A local nonprofit is empowering high school students to tackle some of the state’s biggest problems while taking on its own challenge of addressing Hawaiʻi’s brain drain. 

Civil case had found boys for years preyed on a girl with cognitive abilities of a 5-year-old while school officials looked the other way.

Elementary schoolers do OK in math, but by junior year, many students start falling behind. Educators say they need to catch struggling students earlier.  

Cornell’s shocking handling of an alleged rape isn’t an isolated case. Every educational institution, including University of Hawaiʻi, can do better.

At some Hawaiʻi public schools, more than 50% of students regularly skip school, state data shows.

The nonprofit Nā Kama Kai says a new mobile pool on the Westside of Oʻahu can offer swim lessons for kids with limited access to public pools.

A power struggle with school funders prompted at least one governing board member to resign. 

The school can’t stay open without a governing board, but it may have few options for recruiting a new one. The Hawaiʻi State Public Charter School Commission will decide what happens next on Thursday.

Education advocates worry that proposed rule changes to Head Start could reduce families’ access to education and developmental programs for young children.

Hawaiʻi has fewer preschool seats than it did six years ago when lawmakers set out to fulfill their promise of universal preschool access. What did families and providers gain — and lose — from the state’s multimillion-dollar investment?