Goal Set to Provide 515,000 Meals to Families in Need HONOLULU — The State of Hawaiʻi and the City and County of Honolulu, in partnership with Hawaiʻi Foodbank, have officially launched their 2025 employee food drives to help fight food insecurity across the islands. Together, the state and city have set a goal of providing ...
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Federal and state officials celebrate announcement of the expansion of broadband services to underserved households on Hawaiian home lands. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2024 HONOLULU – The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) announced it has received a $72 million grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP). ...
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HONOLULU – Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke today announced the launch of Digital Detectives, a Connect Kākou initiative to map internet speeds across Hawaiʻi. By taking a simple 30-second internet speed test, residents can help identify areas most in need of better internet infrastructure, ensuring that federal funding is allocated to where it is most needed. “We’re ...
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Benjamin Parker Elementary School Opens First EOEL Public Pre-K in Kāneʻohe Link to Ben Parker Pre-K Photos Link to Ben Parker Pre-K Video B-Roll HONOLULU — In a milestone for early education in Windward Oʻahu, Benjamin Parker Elementary School has opened two new public preschool classrooms—the first of their kind in Kāneʻohe. As part of ...
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Free, Public Preschools Opening on Every Island HONOLULU — This August, 44 free, public preschool classrooms are slated to open across the state, with at least one classroom on each island. This marks a historic number of new public pre-K classrooms opening in a single year. The announcement was made today at Kūhiō Elementary School ...
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Startup Funding to Launch an “Earn and Learn” Program for Future Teachers HONOLULU — Today, Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke joined the Department of Education (DOE), Department of Labor & Industrial Relations (DLIR), and Hawaiʻi Teacher Standards Board (HTSB) to announce that Hawaiʻi has been awarded a $4.9 million State Apprenticeship Expansion Formula (SAEF) grant by the ...
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Expanded Tuition Subsidy Program Increases Reliability, Affordability, and Flexibility HONOLULU, HI — Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke, who is serving as Acting Governor, joined the state’s Department of Human Services (DHS) to announce that the preschool tuition subsidy program, Preschool Open Doors (POD), is now accepting applications on a year-round basis. Act 153, Session Laws of Hawaiʻi 2024, ...
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