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MEDIA RELEASE More than 5,200 students statewide from the Class of 2015 have committed to earn the Board of Education’s (BOE) Recognition Diploma, announced today by Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education. This brings the total to more than 14,200 students from the Classes of 2013, 2014 and 2015 who have pledged for the Step Up […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Did you know that by 2018, 65 percent of jobs in Hawaii will require a college degree, according to a 2010 report by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce? Yet fewer public school graduates are truly prepared to enter college or start a career. In fact, according to a recent […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Step Up, a Hawaii public-school program that encourages students in the 8th and 9th grades to earn the Board of Education’s Step Up (Recognition) Diploma, starting with the class of 2013 has extended its pledge deadline. Ninth grade students can submit their pledge forms through March 15, 2010, and 8th grade students can […]

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