12-04-2017, 04:18 AM
HOTPE-
Thanks for starting this topic.
Hawaii is the only State of 50 that has a centralized State run education system.
Under either the House or Senate tax proposal, public education here takes a hit
because of that.
Due to its centralized structure, HDoE is grossly over-bureaucratized, and expensive
to operate and maintain.
The quality of education and instruction is not the primary concern of the bureaucracy,
although it may be among the actual teaching staff.
HDoE must be understood as an employment agency in a State that has no productive economy
of its own and survives essentially on transfer payments from the military, tourism and retirees.
Consequently, HDoE simply has no sense of urgency to provide the services that it charged to do
and is supposedly accountable for to the children and citizens of the State of Hawaii.
The only way to make this system work is to force authority and accountability AND RESOURCES all the
way down the line to individual schools and classrooms.
HDoE should only be a bare-bones distributor of centrally gathered tax funded resources equitably to the local school's
administrators and teachers, for the benefit of the students, their families and communities.
Publically funded locally run charter schools come closest to accomplishing this in the State of Hawaii, and
we may have some successful local examples here.
It is interesting to note that these are the very schools that the centralized HDoE wants to starve to death financially right now.
Please, some thoughts or comments.
Thanks for starting this topic.
Hawaii is the only State of 50 that has a centralized State run education system.
Under either the House or Senate tax proposal, public education here takes a hit
because of that.
Due to its centralized structure, HDoE is grossly over-bureaucratized, and expensive
to operate and maintain.
The quality of education and instruction is not the primary concern of the bureaucracy,
although it may be among the actual teaching staff.
HDoE must be understood as an employment agency in a State that has no productive economy
of its own and survives essentially on transfer payments from the military, tourism and retirees.
Consequently, HDoE simply has no sense of urgency to provide the services that it charged to do
and is supposedly accountable for to the children and citizens of the State of Hawaii.
The only way to make this system work is to force authority and accountability AND RESOURCES all the
way down the line to individual schools and classrooms.
HDoE should only be a bare-bones distributor of centrally gathered tax funded resources equitably to the local school's
administrators and teachers, for the benefit of the students, their families and communities.
Publically funded locally run charter schools come closest to accomplishing this in the State of Hawaii, and
we may have some successful local examples here.
It is interesting to note that these are the very schools that the centralized HDoE wants to starve to death financially right now.
Please, some thoughts or comments.