To move forward the leadership transition at Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School, interested community members, families, faculty, staff and students of WMS are being invited by the Local School Board Ho’okako’o Corp. (HC) to participate in a facilitated work group planning session from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sat., March 31, 2012 in the [...]

As a follow up to recent meetings with Waimea Middle School’s families and community, the public conversion charter school’s not-for-profit Local School Board Ho`okako`o Corp. is seeking input from families and the community to assist in assessing the competencies and qualifications of candidates for leadership of Waimea Middle School.  This input will be a critical [...]

Vivienne Aronowitz, the Board President of Mala’ai: The Culinary Garden of Waimea Middle School, has written a letter to the Hoʻokākoʻo Board asking them to reconsider their move to replace Principal John Colson at Waimea Middle School.

Follow this link to Sherry Bracken’s web post about Brian De Lima’s comments on the resignation of Waimea Middle School Principal John Colson.

Keith Vieira, Chair of the Board of Directors of Ho’okako’o Corporation, has released a letter to the Waimea Middle School families and community inviting them to a meeting to discuss John Colson’s resignation. The meeting will be on Thursday, February 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Thelma Parker Memorial Gym. Click here to [...]

What are your “hot buttons” for the 2012 Legislature?   √       Job creation √       Taxes? √       Sky high electric bills – why isn’t PUC mandating increased use of geothermal? √       Equitable funding for public charter schools? √       Physician recruitment and retention? √       Medical insurance costs and availability? √       Agricultural water resource funding? [...]

Music and the arts are “essentials” in a well-rounded youth education experience — so says all the research as well as native wisdom. But in today’s federally mandated No Child Left Behind public educational environment, forget it.  No arts.  No music, either, in the public school day.  The emphasis is entirely on reading and computing. Funding [...]

The Parker School August-September Newsletter is available here.  

Not since about 1860 has a halau of hula dancers worn kapa garments in a public performance.  That is, until this year’s Merrie Monarch Festival, when Hilo’s Halau o Kekuhi, in collaboration with Waimea kapa masters Marie McDonald and Roen Hufford and fellow practitioners grew, pounded and printed extraordinary pieces of this indigenous fibre for a [...]

A new K-1 Hawaiian Language Immersion School will be opening in Waimea this 2011 Fall school year. Enrollment is free and open to everyone in the community. This new school is a re-establishment of the Kula Kaiapuni o Waimea, which was closed last school year. The new school will bear a new name and new [...]