Hawaii Department of Education Defends Charter School Under-Funding

On March 4, 2010 15 States across America celebrated their selection for the President's Race to the Top initiative to reform education. Hawaii was not one of those States. Many of us advocate reform, improvement, and innovation in our schools in hopes that we can inspire a generation of engineers and entrepreneurs. This requires leadership and diversity. The heavily-funded Hawaii DOE has neither. In this video we observe the recently appointed Superintendent, whose children do not even attend public schools, defend the illegal underfunding of Hawaii's Charter Schools in direct defiance of the President's directives to support Charter Schools in the Race to the Top. With more furlough days than any other schools in America, on top of the shortest school year in America, it should come as no surprise that Hawaii's 300 public schools are winning the Race to the Bottom. This video is made available from the publicly funded public broadcast of public hearings on public property. I am grateful to Olelo, America's best example of community television, for being there to capture the public record on video.

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[PukkPukk]

Is the DOE corrupt? Where did the last stimulus package money go to? Furloughs a and reduced funds for classrooms??? Hawaii says that they have no $ for education. That's bullshit. Hawaii has one of the strongest economies from the tourism district, there are plenty of wealthy houses going up here and there. I come from Maine, they have a tourism industry though it is not international and year round like Hawaii. Maine was able to give a laptop to every student five or six years ago.

[lsoots]

Hawaii DOE is s disgrace to Hawaii. Our children do not deserve the low quality of leadership. The grades for the public school system was just put out in the HONULULU Magazine. Most of the school fail miserably or certainly are not flourishing. This falls on the a shoulders of the DOE. Over the past decade they have failed to improve. We should be talking about telling them "put up or shut up"- who holds these failures accountable.