by Alia Wong | Feb 28, 2022 | uncategorized
NĀNĀKULI, Hawaii – When Kalehua Krug became principal of Ka Waihona O Ka Na‘auao several years ago, he and his team cut down some age-old trees that towered over the charter school’s front lawn. The decision caused “a bit of a stir” in the rural, coastal West...
by Alia Wong | Sep 23, 2021 | uncategorized
On one of their first days back to school, a group of 3-year-olds at Little Sun People preschool in Brooklyn, New York, spent the morning learning how to write their names. On sheets of construction paper, they filled in the letters with brightly colored squares of...
by Alia Wong | Sep 3, 2021 | uncategorized
HONOLULU – Little did Joanna Lara know she was supposed to start thinking about child care before her son was even born. That the waitlists would be so endless and widespread. That the sticker shock would be so, well, shocking. By the...
by Alia Wong | Jun 3, 2021 | uncategorized
Like millions of women across the country, Shekira Bradwell found herself in a no-win situation last year. Bradwell, a Philadelphia-area mother, realized she could either return to work and pay for a babysitter, or abandon that job and care for her child, whose school...
by Alia Wong | Aug 10, 2020 | education, government, k-12 education, money matters
Zachary Carr hadn’t known Victor for long. Carr, 21, began tutoring the rising fifth grader in mid-June, shortly after wrapping up his junior year at Middle Tennessee State University. But Carr had spent enough one-on-one time with Victor to discern that the boy was...
