Financial Literacy Is Required For Hawai‘i Grads. Are Schools Ready?
The education department is requiring financial literacy lessons after two decades of advocacy from lawmakers and educators. ...
Gov. Green signs bills to improve school facilities, curricula
By: Esme M. Infante at Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Published on: July 4, 2023
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Measures giving the state’s new School Facilities Authority access to millions more dollars and dramatically broader flexibility to build teacher housing and preschool classrooms were among a group of education-related bills signed into law by Gov. Josh Green in a ceremony Monday.
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