Great Rally Turnout:
Now Let's Turn it Up
Thank you for rallying with us on Friday. More than 1,000 teachers turned out, building up energy. Now, let’s turn our energy into action.
Our Schools Our Keiki Deserve bill will be heard by both the Senate Education Committee and the House Education Committee this Wednesday, February 10.
The Senate will hear the bill at 1:15pm and the House at 2:00pm.
We need teachers to testify and send in testimony for BOTH bills.
This is our chance to change to face of education in Hawai’i. To pass our bill, we must make our voices heard. You can either send in your own testimony or cut and paste the testimony below, add your name and send it to each of the following email addresses:
In your emails, please use the following headlines:
Together, we can achieve better pay for teachers, an end to toxic testing, smaller class sizes, cooler classrooms, and an end to unfair evaluations. Thank you for standing with HSTA, your colleagues, and our students who will forge the future of our islands.
SAMPLE TESTIMONY
Thank you for hearing the Schools Our Keiki Deserve Act. As a hardworking educator, I strongly support this bill because I know firsthand how it will boost quality teaching and student learning.
In Hawai’i today, class sizes sometimes exceed forty or fifty students. Classroom temperatures have reached as high as 108 degrees. Curriculum is poisoned by a toxic amount of standardized testing. Arts, vocational, and special education instruction is neglected. Teachers are besieged by a burdensome evaluation system and, in turn, receive the lowest pay in the nation.
We, the teachers, deserve better. Please support professional pay for educators, an end to toxic testing, smaller class sizes, cooler classrooms, funding for arts, vocational and special education, and an end to unfair evaluations. In doing so, you will not only help teachers, but the students who will forge the future of our island home.
Please support this bill.
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