The Department of Education is recruiting Hawaiian language speakers to help stand up the state’s first-ever Hawaiian Immersion Distance Learning Program. Distance learning has become the norm for students under the COVID-19 pandemic. But for Hawaiian immersion students, distance learning has not been an option until now.
A scramble to establish a Hawaiian language immersion distance program this year for families concerned about Covid-19 only began after parents complained.
Keeping Keiki Safe From The School-To-Prison Pipeline - Honolulu Civil Beat
Investment in Native Hawaiian-focused education comes at a far less cost than incarceration.
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Eomailani Kukahiko is a Native Hawaiian from Waimanalo, Oahu with four children. She is a faculty member in the Curriculum Studies Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where her work focuses on Hawaiian education.
Those in Hawaii who think that the kind of violence that occurs on the “mainland” doesn’t happen here should take note of two shooting deaths of males of color Iremamber Sykap (April 5) and Lindani Myeni (April 14) last month. That reminds us that we are not immune.