Aloha HE'E Members and Participants,

HE'E News

The Hawaii Department of Education is asking for help in spreading the word about the 2013 School Quality Survey (SQS) Parent Survey. HE'E has helped make improvements to the Parent Survey, as well as advocated to having the SQS be the metric to track family engagement/family-school partnerships in the Department's Strategic Plan. Please help get the word out to parents and families about the SQS and encourage them to complete and turn in the survey to the Department. Your support is greatly appreciated. Please see the Department's Press Release, Announcement to Parents and Video Link about the SQS.  

Legislative Updates

We are compiling an update of education bills that are of interest to Coalition members (as recommended by our policy team) as well as including Senator Tokuda's updates. This list will be updated weekly.

Attached are Senator Tokuda's updates as well as a HE'E's compilation of hearings for the upcoming week.  (If you do not wish to be included in these emails, please let us know - it is not our intention to clog your emails.)  To submit testimony, please go to this link.  To search for status, please go to this link. 

HE'E Testimony 

HE'E will submit testimony in support for SB237 relating to Public School Lands for the hearing on Monday, January 27, 2013. Please see testimony here. The bill establishes a three-year pilot program to generate revenue for the use of public school land. Please let us know if you should have comments by Sunday noon.    

Upcoming HE'E Meetings 

Hawaii Work to the Rules Presentation and Conversation, Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 4:30-6:00pm  

Please join us for a discussion with the Hawaii Work to the Rules representative and organizer, Corey Rosenlee, who is also a teacher and Campbell High School. Corey will give a presentation about the movement, followed by conversation and discussion.  Meeting will be held at The Learning Coalition, 841 Bishop Street Suite 301, validated parking at Ali'i Place, 1099 Alakea Street. Please RSVP as soon as possible to cheri@heecoalition.org.

HE'E Planning Team Meeting on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 from 9:00-11:00am  

We will update members on the progress of legislative session. All members and participates are welcome to the Planning Meeting. Meeting will be held at at The Learning Coalition, 841 Bishop Street #301, validated parking at Ali'i Place at 1099 Alakea Street.