Education

This year, the Hawaiʻi State Legislature is introducing three bills to provide free period products at all public and charter school campuses. SB2821 will be the first one to receive a hearing on Jan. 28.

The latest COVID-19 variant has put a damper on yet another local festival. The scaled-down Punahou Carnival set for Feb. 4 will not be open to the general public. Punahou President Mike Latham spoke to The Conversation about how the school is weathering this latest surge.

To get a snapshot of what’s being done to steer youth away from tobacco products, The Conversation sat down with Scott Stensrud, the statewide youth coordinator for Hawaiʻi Public Health Institute, and Josh Ching, a senior at Kamehameha Schools Kapalama and member of The Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaiʻi Youth Council.

In his State of the State address, Gov. David Ige outlined what drives his priorities in his final year. The Conversation talked to House Finance Chair and Rep. Sylvia Luke about what the governor highlighted and perhaps left unsaid.

The College Board, the organization behind the test, also announced that the exam will shrink from three hours to two, and students will be able to use a calculator for the math section.

Gov. David Ige is proposing refunding $100 to every taxpayer and dependent as the economy and tax receipts recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

An education advocacy group aims to improve mental health services in Hawaiʻi schools with several measures during this 2022 legislative session.

Only 51% of Hawaiʻi public school teachers remained on the job after five years of work. Data from the state Department of Education shows the retention rate is little changed in recent years.

First things first: Get acquainted (or reacquainted) with your loans. And don't count on blanket loan forgiveness.

Student loan servicer Navient will cancel nearly $2 billion in subprime student loan debt to 66,000 borrowers nationwide to resolve allegations of unfair and deceptive lending practices. Nearly 200 Hawaiʻi borrowers will be cleared of $4.3 million in debt.