Hawaiian language immersion students won’t be tested in both English and Hawaiian under a one-year federal waiver granted this month. The state Department of Education applied for a waiver from the ...

The U.S. Department of Education has granted Hawaii a one-year waiver that will allow the state’s Hawaiian-language-immersion students to be tested in that language only. The state and the University ...

Like many educators before them, teachers of native languages have voiced their frustration with a law that, while well intentioned, seems too inflexible to work across the full spectrum of the nation ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii's immersion schools, or kaiapuni, fought for years to get standardized testing in the Hawaiian language, but less than half of their students are afforded that ...

MANSFIELD - Eight students from Mansfield Spanish Immersion School earned the highest possible score on one or more state tests last school year. The students took tests in English language arts, math ...