Looking Back on a Decade of Covering Hawaii’s State Department of Education
“Under threat of federal intervention, Hawaii’s public school teachers and the state settled a 20-day strike Tuesday that had kept 183,000 children out of class, frazzled parents and drained teachers’ pocketbooks across the state.”
Does this ring a bell?
That was how the Los Angeles Times reported the end of the April 2001 teachers strike, in which the Hawaii State Teachers Association and the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly shut down public education statewide, for everyone from kindergarteners to graduate students. I quote the Los Angeles Times to remind you that this strike was historic in scale, reported on from coast to coast.
Public school teachers were demanding a 22-percent raise. “The teachers are angry and they’re willing to do everything to make sure our public schools improve,” then-HSTA spokesperson Danielle Lum told us.
According to then-HSTA president Karen Ginoza, the raises were essential to putting a quality teacher in every classroom.
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