Educational Pathways
Supporting initiatives, leveraging partnerships, engaging in strategies to develop educational pathways that strengthen culture-based education, early education, K-12 and post-secondary education will ensure that Native Hawaiians are grounded in their past while participating in a technologically oriented future.
What is our goal?
Strategic Outcome: Strengthened and Integrated Community, Culture based Learning Systems
What does that look like for the lahui?
Strategy 1: Support development and use of educational resources for all Hawaiian life-long learners in schools, communities and ʻohana.
- 1.1. Increased number or percent of Native Hawaiian students who enter educational systems ready to learn;
- 1.2. Increased number or percent of Native Hawaiian students graduating high school who are college, career, and community ready; and
- 1.3. Increased number of Native Hawaiians engaged in traditional learning systems (ie. hale, halau, mua, hale peʻa) that reestablish/maintain strong cultural foundations/ identity.
Strategy 2: Support education through Hawaiian language medium and focused Charter Schools.
- 2.1. Adequately resourced Hawaiian Focused Charter Schools and Hawaiian-medium schools, including funding of transportation, special education, facilities, and meals, and availablity of qualified teachers;
- 2.2. Increased availability of Hawaiian Focused Charter Schools and Hawaiian-medium schools; and
- 2.3. Establishment of a Native Hawaiian Charter School and Hawaiian-medium system.
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Education Opportunity:
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