Editing Niihau (section)

===Education===
The [[Hawaii Department of Education]] operates the [[Ni'ihau High and Elementary School|Ni{{okina}}ihau School]], a K–12 school. Academic subjects and computer literacy are combined with teaching students to "thrive from the land".<ref name="khon2009">{{cite web |last=Mangieri |first=Gina |title=Niihau: Past, Present and Future |publisher=[[KHON-TV]] (report with video) |medium=Television production |date=June 22, 2009 |url=http://www.khon2.com/content/news/niihauexclusive/story/Niihau-Past-Present-and-Future/B7JzKk34G0uf4my5mmCBRQ.cspx |quote=Partial transcript/monograph online in 12 parts |access-date=July 6, 2010 |archive-date=June 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616212053/http://www.khon2.com/content/news/niihauexclusive/story/Niihau-Past-Present-and-Future/B7JzKk34G0uf4my5mmCBRQ.cspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> The school is powered entirely by [[solar power]].<ref name="Gehrlein-2007">{{cite news |last=Gehrlein |first=Rachel |date=December 15, 2007 |title=Ni{{okina}}ihau school first in state on solar power |newspaper=The Garden Island |url=http://thegardenisland.com/news/article_ea0d5db0-43b9-530f-8785-3230bd446f30.html |access-date=February 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301074228/http://thegardenisland.com/news/article_ea0d5db0-43b9-530f-8785-3230bd446f30.html |archive-date=March 1, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The number of students varies from 25 to 50 since families often travel between Ni{{okina}}ihau and Kaua{{okina}}i.<ref>{{cite web |author=Hawaii State Department of Education |url=http://power2.k12.hi.us/index.cfm?siteID=277 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120726212822/http://power2.k12.hi.us/index.cfm?siteID=277 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 26, 2012 |title=Ni{{okina}}ihau School }}</ref> Schoolchildren may stay with relatives in west Kaua{{okina}}i, where they attend one of two Ni{{okina}}ihau-focused public [[charter school]]s. At the [[Niihau School of Kekaha|Ke Kula Ni{{okina}}ihau o Kekaha school]], students speak primarily the Ni{{okina}}ihau dialect through the early elementary grades, and then [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]] and English through grade 12. The school has a digital recording and video system, which helps to preserve and teach traditional Ni{{okina}}ihau and Hawaiian culture. At the other west Kaua{{okina}}i school, Kula Aupuni Ni{{okina}}ihau a Kahelelani Aloha (KANAKA), English is used in all grades, while still supporting the Ni{{okina}}ihau dialect. Both schools foster the culture, values, and spirituality of Ni{{okina}}ihau.<ref name="khon2009" /> Efforts to establish KANAKA began in 1993 and its current version was established in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://content.schoolinsites.com/api/documents/030f931902af4ce5ab5876f03f6dc046.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://content.schoolinsites.com/api/documents/030f931902af4ce5ab5876f03f6dc046.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Bilingual Education At KANAKA|access-date=June 13, 2021}}</ref>