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Students win app challenge with game focused on culture
A student-built video game that encourages Hawaiian youth to take pride in their history and culture is this year’s sole winner for Hawaii in the annual Congressional App Challenge. Read more
Infante is an award-winning news reporter, editor, columnist and digital manager who has worked for The Honolulu Advertiser, USA Today and other local and national media outlets. Previous to joining the Star-Advertiser, she worked as newscaster and host on the highly rated “The Rise & Drive Morning Show with Devon & Esme” on 94.7 KUMU. Other prior positions include communications director for the late Congressman Mark Takai; promotions director for Islandwide Crafts & Food Expos; founder, chief executive and editor of Moms In Hawaii LLC; and founder of the broadcast journalism program at Mililani High School. She is a proud graduate of Mililani High School, and the University of Hawaii, where she graduated with distinction.
The education beat is close to Infante’s heart. She covered education in the 1990s for The Honolulu Advertiser. She is also a former classroom teacher from a family of educators, and the mother of one child in public school and another in the University of Hawaii system.
A student-built video game that encourages Hawaiian youth to take pride in their history and culture is this year’s sole winner for Hawaii in the annual Congressional App Challenge. Read more
Hawaii public school teachers who called in absent spiked to 2,159 Friday amid the current COVID-19 surge, the state Department of Education reported. And the state was short 472 substitute teachers to cover its missing classroom educators. Read more
Teacher absences on the other school days this week ranged from 1,685 to 1,790, with similar shortfalls among substitute teachers. Read more
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Hawaii’s public schools have been struggling with staffing during the unprecedented COVID-19 omicron variant surge. Read more
A team of fourth graders from a small public charter school on Kauai has scored the national honor of having their science experiment on sugar cane growth flown to the International Space Station in May. Read more
In public schools, 1,812 teachers were absent today, or approximately 14% of 12,800 teachers statewide, according to state Department of Education data. Read more
Kamaile Academy Public Charter School in Waianae has sent 100 middle school students home to quarantine, while DreamHouse ‘Ewa Beach has shifted to full virtual learning for at least two weeks. Read more
Kamaile Academy Public Charter School in Waianae has sent 100 middle-school students home to quarantine, while DreamHouse ‘Ewa Beach has shifted to full virtual learning for at least two weeks. Read more
Hawaii’s public schools are now starting to see disruptions due to rising teacher absences caused by the COVID-19 omicron variant surge, state schools interim Superintendent Keith Hayashi has confirmed. Read more
About 800 teachers statewide called out sick today, Hawaii Department of Education Interim Superintendent Keith Hayashi said during a news conference. Read more
Three of Hawaii’s biggest private schools have joined the public schools here in pushing on with in-person learning for the new semester, while the omicron surge has compelled a growing list of mainland school districts to postpone reopening or to switch to remote learning. Read more
As Hawaii’s 257 public schools press on with the plan to return to full in- person learning today amid the unprecedented omicron surge, the question for many is, Will it be safe? Read more
The state Department of Education has maintained that resuming in-person learning is crucial for students’ social development and academic achievement. Read more
Teachers are scheduled to return from winter break on Jan. 3, and students are scheduled to return Jan. 4. Read more
