Teacher contract includes pay cut HONOLULU (AP) — A proposed contract for Hawaii’s public school teachers calls for a 5 percent pay cut but would later allow for annual raises through a performance-based evaluation system. ADVERTISING The Hawaii State Teachers
Teacher contract includes pay cut
HONOLULU (AP) — A proposed contract for Hawaii’s public school teachers calls for a 5 percent pay cut but would later allow for annual raises through a performance-based evaluation system.
The Hawaii State Teachers Association last week reached a tentative agreement with the state. A synopsis the union released to members shows teachers would move to a new salary schedule and evaluation system in July 2013.
They would face the 5 percent cut through June 2013 to help balance the state’s budget.
NAACP moves Dr. King event
HONOLULU (AP) — The NAACP won’t be holding a Martin Luther King Jr. dinner at a Waikiki hotel that is being boycotted by a union.
The Hawaii branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People lost $8,000 to cancel Saturday’s dinner at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach.
NAACP branch President Alphonso Braggs said the King banquet has been held at the Hyatt for five of the past six years and the contract renewal took place before the boycott.
Local 5 workers voted last June to join workers at Hyatt hotels across the country in a boycott. The King event will take place at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa.
Sotomayor to visit UH-Manoa
HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be coming to Hawaii later this month, where she’ll be taking part in a jurist-in-residence program at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
The university says during her visit to the law school, Sotomayor will teach classes, judge a Moot Court practice, and meet with faculty and students. Sotomayor will take part in the program from Jan. 29 through Feb. 3.
While she’s in Hawaii, Sotomayor will be a guest at an event for the Hawaii Bar and will also be the guest of honor at a breakfast with Hawaii Women Lawyers and the Hawaii Women’s Legal Foundation.
Haney to take over Pacific Fleet
PEARL HARBOR, Oahu (AP) — The Navy is planning a ceremony to mark the change in command at the Pacific Fleet next week.
Adm. Cecil D. Haney will take over from Adm. Patrick Walsh at Pearl Harbor on Jan. 20.
Walsh is retiring after 34 years in the Navy and more than two years as Pacific Fleet commander. He led all U.S. military relief efforts in Japan after the March 11 earthquake and tsunamis last year.
Haney was most recently the deputy commander of the U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. He has previously commanded a submarine squadron and a submarine group.
The Pacific Fleet includes about 180 ships, nearly 2,000 aircraft and 125,000 sailors, Marines and civilians.
Ordnance found at former Oahu WWII-era bomb range
BELLOWS AIR FORCE STATION, Hawaii (AP) — Unexploded ordnance and munitions have been removed from a former World War II bomb range at an Oahu Air Force station.
Pacific Air Forces officials say the ordnance and munitions were excavated during a scheduled cleanup at Bellows Air Force Station’s driving range.
The location of the findings does not impact any other area of the Air Force station.
Area residents and Bellows guests are assured that the ordnance has been evaluated by certified unexploded ordnance professionals and will be detonated by certified demolition contractors.
Demolition operations will be conducted with minimal impact to surrounding habitat and wildlife.
