Education

Hawaiʻi DOE Wants Another $30M For A Facility That Hasn’t Been Built Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Hawaiʻi DOE Wants Another $30M For A Facility That Hasn’t Been Built

The Department of Education is pinning its local food buying goals on a central facility, and the budget is getting bigger and bigger.

Education Department Layoffs Hit Special Ed And Civil Rights Offices AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin/2025

Education Department Layoffs Hit Special Ed And Civil Rights Offices

The layoffs would cut the agency’s workforce by nearly a fifth and leave it reduced to less than half its size when Trump took office

Hawaiʻi Parents Are Hopping Fences To Sneak Into Playgrounds Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Hawaiʻi Parents Are Hopping Fences To Sneak Into Playgrounds

Lawmakers have pushed schools to open their facilities for recreational use, but the education department has raised concerns about liability and safety.

This School Wanted Officers On Campus. 3 Others Will Get Them First David Croxford/Civil Beat/2023

This School Wanted Officers On Campus. 3 Others Will Get Them First

Representatives of Nānākuli High and Intermediate School say they have been left out of Oʻahu’s upcoming school resource officer pilot program.

Religious Waivers Soar For Child Vaccines On Kauaʻi Getty Images/iStockphoto

Religious Waivers Soar For Child Vaccines On Kauaʻi

The low immunization rate at Kauaʻi schools is tied to a rise in easy-to-obtain religious waivers.

1 In 4 Hawai‘i Students Are Chronically Absent From School Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

1 In 4 Hawai‘i Students Are Chronically Absent From School

Five years after the pandemic upended attendance, many schools are still struggling to get kids to show up regularly.

Half Of UH Students Struggle To Get Food Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

Half Of UH Students Struggle To Get Food

For students at the University of Hawaiʻi, skipping a meal or going hungry isn’t uncommon, according to new data.

Hawai‘i State Library Bans Displays For Banned Books Week Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Hawai‘i State Library Bans Displays For Banned Books Week

The state librarian says the new guidelines help people avoid any confusion that the library is banning books.

E-Bikes In Schools: Hawaiʻi Politicians Call For Restrictions Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

E-Bikes In Schools: Hawaiʻi Politicians Call For Restrictions

Efforts to implement stricter rules and more consistent standards have taken on urgency amid a sharp increase in traffic fatalities this year.

Here’s Where Hawaiʻi School Enrollment Is Dropping Fastest Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Here’s Where Hawaiʻi School Enrollment Is Dropping Fastest

The state is looking at redistricting schools and closing campuses amid an ongoing decline in enrollment.