Secretary McMahon Visits Hawaii as Returning Education to the States Tour Reaches 49th State, With Stops at Military-Connected Schools
The U.S. Department of Education announced on November 5 that Secretary Linda McMahon visited Hawaii this week on her nationwide Returning Education to the States Tour, with Hawaii becoming the 49th state on the tour. Her stops included Radford High School and Mokapu Elementary School in the Honolulu area, a literacy and military-family roundtable, and the Hawaiian-language immersion school Ka Waihona o Ka Na'auao.
Both Radford High School and Mokapu Elementary serve large numbers of military-connected students. At the roundtable, McMahon heard from military families about school transfers, course credit recognition and student support. The department said military children change schools multiple times on average because of parental reassignments, and federal officials are pressing states to align transfer-placement rules to ease the burden.
At Ka Waihona o Ka Na'auao, McMahon observed Hawaiian-language immersion teaching. The department said the visit was meant to learn from states' approaches to native language and culture education, and that, as part of returning education decisions to the states, the federal department will reduce its intervention in local curricula.
Since launching this year, the Returning Education to the States Tour has reached 49 states, with McMahon meeting governors, state education chiefs, teachers and parents to promote the RES funding-flexibility waivers. The department has so far approved waivers for ten states, including Oklahoma and Nebraska. (Source: U.S. Department of Education)
Source: U.S. Department of Education
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 美国教育部长 Linda McMahon 官方肖像（资料图），美国教育部，公共领域
