Hearing On Wailupe’s Fate April 8
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Del.icio.usA public hearing is set for 6 p.m. April 8 on a report regarding the possible consolidation of Wailupe Valley and Aina Haina elementary schools.
Kaiser Complex superintendent Ronn Nozoe will hear testimony on the WVEAHE Schools Task Force report in the Niu Valley Middle School cafeteria.
Following the hearing, the task force will recommend a course of action to Nozoe on “whether and when” Wailupe should be consolidated within the Aina Haina campus. Wailupe currently has 79 students in grades K-5, each grade in a self-contained classroom; Aina Haina has 549 students in grades K-5.
Schools chief Pat Hamamoto directed Nozoe and other area superintendents in November to study consolidation as a way to increase efficiency and save funds in the crippled DOE budget. The 15-page task force report finds that about $800,000 could be saved by closing the 50-year-old Wailupe, but it also analyzes losing the nurturing environment of the smaller school versus the wider variety of programs and services for students at the bigger school.
Task force members are Wailupe principal Susan Okano and parent Janet Borja, Aina Haina principal Brendan Burns and School Community Council chairman Paul Bernstein, Cary Miyashiro, Linda Miller, Annette Chun-Ming and Patrick Duarte.
Testimony also will be accepted by mail to the Department of Education’s Honolulu District Office, 4967 Kilauea Ave., Honolulu HI 96816, or e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). It should be received no later than three business days after the hearing.
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