Barbara Abe, Your Hawaii Kai Realtor

Getting Hawaii's best teachers and principals to work at the state's lowest-performing schools is a key element of the Race to the Top national contest, designed to lift student achievement.  Nearly $19 million in federal funds, a quarter of the $75 million Hawaii won, will go toward turning around the lowest-achieving schools. The ...

Private schools in the Islands are feeling the economic pinch just as are public schools.  Unfortunately, Holy Trinity School, in Kuli'ou'ou, just a minute from the boundary of Hawaii Kai, will close June 7.  The school has tried for years unsuccessfully to make ends meet, after being an institution in our part of the island ...