Hawaii Black Educator Association

Happy Thanksgiving/Black Friday! Enjoy time with family and friends

School year 2025-26 begins with promise of opportunities, challenges - Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association A special message from HSTA leaders to start the year
Posted: August 1, 2025 Aloha, colleagues!Welcome to a new school year full of new opportunities and new challenges.Public education continues to come under attack, and the times we live in have ...

Welcome back to school teachers? Hope you had a wonderful summer!

Is everyone safe and secure tonite?

Thank you Enchanted Lake Elementary

🎒 STUFF DA BUS is back!
Join us this Saturday, July 26 from 11am–1pm at Raising Cane’s in Pearl City as we collect supplies to get 250 local keiki school ready! 🚌✏️📚

🛍️ Drop off your donations
🍗 Grab a meal (15% of sales that day support the cause!)

Let’s come together to make sure every keiki starts the school year strong 💪🏽

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Helping Hands Hawaii ! Thank you

📣 Know someone who needs help getting their keiki ready for the new school year? We're allowing walk-ins for our final two school supply distribution events!

📍 Kapolei High School
🗓 TODAY, July 17 | ⏰ 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

📍 Helping Hands Hawai‘i (2100 N. Nimitz Hwy)
🗓 Saturday, July 19 | ⏰ 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
✅ Walk-ins are accepted all day!

Please tag or share with anyone who could use free school supplies. Let’s make sure every keiki in Hawai‘i starts the school year with confidence!

Congrats is due to the Hawaii State Teachers Association!

HSTA communications team wins 10 national awards - Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association The staff earned Best in Show for its videos
Posted: July 16, 2025 The Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association's Communications Department won 10 first-place awards and best-in-show honors in a national contest for its videos, social media, electronic ne...

24 states sue Trump administration over nearly $7B in frozen education funds - Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association $33M in Hawaiʻi school funding is in jeopardy

Posted: July 14, 2025

Hawaiʻi joined more than 20 states on Monday to sue President Donald Trump's administration over billions of dollars in frozen education funding for after-school care, summer ...

HIDOE says $33M in school funding imperiled by Trump administration - Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association ʻSignificantʻ activities affected include migrant education, English learner programs

Posted: July 6, 2025

The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education estimates that approximately $33 million in congressionally appropriated federal funds has bee...

Thank you to our wonderful educators at HSTA! We appreciate your hard work what you are doing for our Hawaii community!