Dear HE'E Members and Participants,

Hawaii's Department of Education has asked for Letters of Support for their ESEA Flexibility Application, which are due at the end of the day Tuesday September 4, 2012. The entire Application is due to the US Department of Education on September 6, 2012.  The Coalition has been following the ESEA Flexibility process, provided input to the application, in particular, for increased focus on family-school partnerships, and has been supportive of the application plan. We have drafted a Letter of Support which is at this link here . We apologize for the quick turnaround; please send any comments to the Letter of Support by noon September 4, 2012 to cheri@heecoalition.org. If you have any questions, please contact me on 808-375-5066.

Also, please join us for HE'E's planning meeting on Tuesday September 11, 2012 from 9-11am at The Learning Coalition office. All HE'E members are welcome to participate. We welcome Deborah Zysman and Jacce Mikulanec from Good Beginnings Alliance who will be presenting their policy ideas on early learning for the upcoming legislative session. We will also welcome any policy ideas from members. We will also give an update on the work being done by the SCR79 workgroup.  Validated parking available at Ali'i Place (separate building) at 1099 Alakea Street. 

Please click on the link below to register or RSVP.