Editing Hawaii (section)

===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>