Feds notice improvement by state DOE

By Nanea Kalani

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 12, 2013

~~<p>Federal education officials have partially lifted the "high-risk" status of Hawaii's $75 million Race to the Top grant, citing "substantial progress" in two so-called assurance areas of the state's sweeping school reform plan.</p>
<p>"This is a turning point for us as we continue our strategic transformation in our public schools," Hawaii Department of Education Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi said in a statement Monday. "The progress being made gives us great hope that federal officials will acknowledge the improvements being made in the other areas of the grant."</p>
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Federal education officials have partially lifted the "high-risk" status of Hawaii's $75 million Race to the Top grant, citing "substantial progress" in two so-called assurance areas of the state's sweeping school reform plan.

"This is a turning point for us as we continue our strategic transformation in our public schools," Hawaii Department of Education Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi said in a statement Monday. "The progress being made gives us great hope that federal officials will acknowledge the improvements being made in the other areas of the grant." Login for more...