04-10-2013, 02:39 PM
thankyou for setting me straight! I thought that because the teacher's do not have DOE retirement plans that they were not DOE employees and therefore, the schools were somehow some kind of public/private hybrid. I may even have this wrong! But I think it was a big bone of contention up in laupahoehoe when they converted to charter, and that's why a lot of teachers wanted to leave. (but please provide info if you know it about this also! because I certainly could even have this wrong) I also saw that the kids that were on the science olypiad team from the charter school did not all get to go to Oahu because of lack of money and that the Hilo Inter students all managed, with the help of PTA also to go. IT seems like there's more of a structure for fundraising in the regular schools. This has just been my own limited personal experience.