A prime predictor of future economic and emotional instability, and even prison time, chronic absenteeism affects large numbers of Hawai‘i public school students. Last school year, nearly 27,000 students got in trouble for missing too much school. Helping them show up consistently will take a community effort.
After heading two very different school systems that each faced controversy, New York native Christina Kishimoto sees reason to believe Hawai‘i’s much-maligned public schools can adopt innovative school reform that helps students succeed.
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Find out how the state’s public schools rank.
A few of Hawai‘i’s best teachers share their thoughts on how to improve the state’s public education system—and how they’ve managed to excel in their own classrooms.
The state rolled out its a new-and-improved version of its teacher evaluations in 2015.
