by Michael Keany - This is the fifth time we’ve published our “Grading the Public Schools” chart, a comprehensive report card on Hawaii’s 257 public schools. We first brought you this list in 2003,...

The Honolulu City Council livestreams every committee and general meeting that it holds making its debate and disputes public. However, the Department of Education, while it films some of its board meetings,...

Across the county, advocacy and journalism groups are pushing for more government transparency. Since there is no official state transparency web site that makes such things as budgets, revenue and expenditure...

Public school systems around the world are improving their outcomes through changes to their current system. In some cases, such proposed changes may benefit Hawaii, however, they have to be implemented...