Editing Hawaii (section)

==Education==
===Public schools===
{{Main|Hawaii Department of Education}}{{See also|List of elementary schools in Hawaii|List of middle schools in Hawaii|List of high schools in Hawaii}}
[[File:Waianae High School (5888481033).jpg|thumb|alt=Façade of a public high school.|[[Waianae High School]], located in [[Waianae, Hawaii|Wai{{okina}}anae]], houses an educational community media center]]

Hawaii has the only school system within the U.S. that is unified statewide. Policy decisions are made by the fourteen-member state [[Hawaii Board of Education|Board of Education]], which sets policy and hires the superintendent of schools, who oversees the [[Hawaii Department of Education]]. The Department of Education is divided into seven districts; four on O{{okina}}ahu and one for each of the other three counties.

Public elementary, middle and high school test scores in Hawaii are below national averages on tests mandated under the [[No Child Left Behind Act]]. The Hawaii Board of Education requires all eligible students to take these tests and report all student test scores. This may have unbalanced the results that reported in August 2005 that of 282 schools across the state, 185 failed to reach federal minimum performance standards in mathematics and reading.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/education/4870699/detail.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070318182117/http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/education/4870699/detail.html |archive-date=March 18, 2007 |title=Two-Thirds of Hawaii Schools Do Not Meet Requirements—Education News Story—KITV Honolulu |publisher=Thehawaiichannel.com |date=August 18, 2005 |access-date=May 15, 2010}}</ref> The [[ACT (examination)|ACT college placement tests]] show that in 2005, seniors scored slightly above the national average (21.9 compared with 20.9),<ref>Honolulu Advertiser, August 17, 2005, p. B1</ref> but in the widely accepted [[SAT]] examinations, Hawaii's college-bound seniors tend to score below the national average in all categories except mathematics.

The first native controlled public charter school was the [[Kanu O Ka Aina New Century Charter School]].<ref>{{cite book |title=US: Hawaii Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 |date=March 20, 2009 |publisher=Intl Business Pubns USA |isbn=978-1438721880 |page=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aGndCwAAQBAJ&q=The+first+native+controlled+public+charter+school+was+the+Kanu+O+Ka+Aina+New+Century+Charter+School&pg=PA34 |access-date=October 30, 2019 |archive-date=September 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921094011/https://books.google.com/books?id=aGndCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=The+first+native+controlled+public+charter+school+was+the+Kanu+O+Ka+Aina+New+Century+Charter+School&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Private schools===
Hawaii has the highest rates of private school attendance in the nation. During the 2011–2012 school year, Hawaii public and charter schools had an enrollment of 181,213,<ref name="DOE">{{cite web |url=http://lilinote.k12.hi.us/STATE/COMM/DOEPRESS.NSF/a1d7af052e94dd120a2561f7000a037c/81c3aa4a36044f930a257927007ab8d5?OpenDocument |title=News—Official 2011–12 Public and Charter School Enrollment |publisher=[[Hawaiʻi Department of Education]] |location=Honolulu, HI |website=Hawaii Public Schools |date=October 12, 2011 |access-date=May 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309125225/http://lilinote.k12.hi.us/STATE/COMM/DOEPRESS.NSF/a1d7af052e94dd120a2561f7000a037c/81c3aa4a36044f930a257927007ab8d5?OpenDocument |archive-date=March 9, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> while private schools had 37,695.<ref name="HAIS">{{cite web |url=http://www.hais.org/uploads/file/about_stats_hcpsenrollrpt12.pdf#page=3 |title=Private School Enrollment Report 2011–2012 |author=Jordan, Cynthia |website=Hawaii Association of Independent Schools |location=Honolulu, HI |date=October 10, 2011 |page=3 |access-date=May 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117104733/http://www.hais.org/uploads/file/about_stats_hcpsenrollrpt12.pdf#page=3 |archive-date=January 17, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> Private schools educated over 17% of students in Hawaii that school year, nearly three times the approximate national average of 6%.<ref name="NCES">{{cite web |url=http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009062.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090919172601/http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009062.pdf |archive-date=September 19, 2009 |title=Projections of Education Statistics to 2018 |author1=Hussar, William J. |author2=Bailey, Tabitha M. |website=National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Department of Education |publisher=National Center for Education Statistics |location=Washington, DC |date=September 11, 2009 |page=6 (22 out of 68)|access-date=May 12, 2012}}</ref> According to Alia Wong of ''[[Honolulu Civil Beat]]'', this is due to private schools being relatively inexpensive compared to ones on the mainland as well as the overall reputations of private schools.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wong |first=Alia |title=Living Hawaii: Many Families Sacrifice to Put Kids in Private Schools |url=https://www.civilbeat.org/2014/03/living-hawaii-many-families-sacrifice-to-put-kids-in-private-schools/ |work=[[Honolulu Civil Beat]] |date=March 17, 2014 |access-date=October 7, 2020}}</ref>

It has four of the largest independent schools; [[Iolani School|{{okina}}Iolani School]], [[Kamehameha Schools]], [[Mid-Pacific Institute]] and [[Punahou School]]. [[Pacific Buddhist Academy]], the second Buddhist high school in the U.S. and first such school in Hawaii, was founded in 2003.

Independent schools can select their students, while most public schools of HIDOE are open to all students in their attendance zones. The Kamehameha Schools are the only schools in the U.S. that openly grant admission to students based on ancestry; collectively, they are one of the wealthiest schools in the United States, if not the world, having over eleven billion US dollars in estate assets.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ksbe.edu/assets/annual_reports/KS_Annual_Report_2014.pdf |title=Kamehameha Schools 2013–2014 Annual Report |access-date=September 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150603160954/http://www.ksbe.edu/assets/annual_reports/KS_Annual_Report_2014.pdf |archive-date=June 3, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2005, Kamehameha enrolled 5,398 students, 8.4% of the Native Hawaiian children in the state.<ref>
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===Colleges and universities===
{{See also|List of colleges and universities in Hawaii}}
[[File:Stone marking the entrance to University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.jpg|alt=A large stone or landmark made of a marble-like material reads "UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA", with the seal of the university at the top.|thumb|267x267px|Main entrance of the [[University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa|University of Hawaii at Manoa]]]]
The largest institution of higher learning in Hawaii is the [[University of Hawaiʻi System]], which consists of the research university at [[University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa|Mānoa]], two comprehensive campuses at [[University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo|Hilo]] and [[University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu|West O{{okina}}ahu]], and seven community colleges. Private universities include [[Brigham Young University–Hawaii]], [[Chaminade University of Honolulu]], [[Hawaii Pacific University]], and [[Wayland Baptist University]]. [[Saint Stephen Diocesan Seminary, Honolulu|Saint Stephen Diocesan Center]] is a [[seminary]] of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu]]. Kona hosts the [[University of the Nations]], which is not an [[educational accreditation|accredited]] university.