Niu Valley Middle School just updated its list for 2016-2017 school supplies. Kids need to have these for classes, but unlike elementary school, do not need to turn them in on the first day. Rather, they hold on to them to use as instructed and bring as needed. This list […]
Middle School
AYSO Hawaii Region 48 (Kaimuki through Hawaii Kai) is currently accepting mail-in registrations for its Fall 2015 season. Registration will continue until teams are filled. More information can be found [here]
I did a little data mining to find the educational attainment level in the State of Hawaii, in the City and County of Honolulu and in Hawaii Kai. As it turns out, 30.1 percent of Hawaii residents 25 years and older have a bachelor’s degree or higher. Amazingly however, 9.6 […]
What is the optimal rate of math or English proficiency for any public school? Public school proficiency arguably shouldn’t be 100 percent. The problem with 100 percent proficiency is the price of collecting those last percentage points. It is, after all a public school, a democratic right and one in […]
Sometimes I think transparency in Hawaii is literal: you can’t see it. These data come from the Hawaii Department of Education website out of a link that I only seem to be able to access by using special filters in the Google search engine to unearth. It does not seem […]