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Hawaiʻi Today: Current Events & Issues - Education: Public Education

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Online Resources & Articles

"Public, Private & Charter Schools - How Should Parents Choose?" YouTube, uploaded by Honolulu Civil Beat, 1 Oct. 2014, youtu.be/nLD90xe_2HQ.
"Should Local Communities Have Greater Control Over Their Schools?" YouTube, uploaded by Honolulu Civil Beat, 8 Oct. 2014, https://youtu.be/MmHRyD3C0uI.
Public Education in Hawaiʻi: Oral Histories
From the introduction: "In these volumes are life history interviews with ten educators who, first as students and later as teachers and/or administrators, witnessed and participated in the many developments that occurred in public education in Hawaiʻi from the early years of this century to the present." Published in 1991.

Books

Challenging the Status Quo : Public Education in Hawaii 1840-1980
Call Number: LA263.2 D68 1994 (Hawaiian Reference-Request at Circulation Desk)
Going Against the Grain: When Professionals in Hawaiʻi Choose Public Schools Instead of Private Schools by Ann S. Bayer
Call Number: Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection LB1027.9 .B39 2009
The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School by Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua
Call Number: LB 2806.36 .G68 2013 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)

Also available online from Ebook Central.