by Deborah Bond-Upson | Mar 31, 2021 | Family Engagement, NEWS - BLOG, Pandemic
Reported by Parents for Public Schools National Newsletter: To Test or Not to Test? That is the...
by Deborah Bond-Upson | Mar 13, 2021 | Family Engagement, Legislative News, NEWS - BLOG, Resources, School Funding
How to Get Involved Find your legislator: www.capitol.hawaii.gov/fyl Capitol website: capitol.hawaii.gov Access Bills on School Funding Reliability by typing their # in on the capitol website: SB815, HB611 Learn about the legislative process: lrb.hawaii.gov/par...
by Deborah Bond-Upson | Mar 13, 2021 | Family Engagement, NEWS - BLOG, School Community Councils (SCCs)
In this time of education challenges and transformation– SCCs could play a vital role. So we surveyed parents, 121 responded, and here is our full report on the SCC survey. In brief: 56.2% know a little or a lot about SCCs 23.1% are sure notices of meetings are...
by Deborah Bond-Upson | Mar 3, 2021 | Family Engagement, NEWS - BLOG, Pandemic
When to reopen schools? What is the status of my child’s school? What are safe conditions for opening given Covid-19?… these are vital questions. Knowing the decisions may be quite different based on teacher, family and student health, academic and social...
by Deborah Bond-Upson | Mar 1, 2021 | Education Innovation, Family Engagement, NEWS - BLOG, Pandemic
Right now: Families can apply for Internet Kokua (Lifeline) access from Hawaiiantel. Here is the form- download, complete, mail in. Coming soon: Emergency Broadband Benefits (EBB), authorized by Congress, have been set for eligible families through via the Federal...
by Deborah Bond-Upson | Nov 10, 2020 | Family Engagement, NEWS - BLOG, Pandemic, Virtual Learning
Nov. 24, 2020– Parents for Public Schools of Hawai‘i Board has asked Acellus CEO and the HI DOE for Answers Roger Billings, CEO of Acellus, made a video statement over a week ago, asserting that the HI DOE could lose $272million by dropping the Acellus program...
