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Megan Tagami

Education Reporter at Honolulu Civil Beat

covering all things education for @civilbeat 📚 | @aaja | Formerly: @wsj @collegebeatca @edsource @aajavoices | proud @dailybruin alum | she/her

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  • 1 week ago | civilbeat.org | Megan Tagami

    Hawaiʻi requires high school seniors pay off school debts before donning a cap and gown. Not all families can afford to. A few years ago, ʻIlima Intermediate teacher Sarah Milianta-Laffin was surprised to see a student with previously good attendance start showing up to class late and without her uniform at the end of the year.

  • 2 weeks ago | civilbeat.org | Megan Tagami

    People who stopped paying their student loans during the Covid-19 pandemic could soon start facing reductions in their monthly Social Security benefits. More than 20 years after Kathleen Wyatt finished her first master’s program, she returned to college, took out a federal student loan and earned a second degree in business administration. At the time, the former nurse planned to open an adult daycare center and wanted to get a strong grasp of finance first.

  • 3 weeks ago | civilbeat.org | Megan Tagami

    State education leaders say creating a new assistant superintendent position could improve operations, but the department is close to doubling the number of top leadership posts since 2012. It’s been a hard two years for the state office responsible for school facilities and operations. In 2023 alone, the office failed to use $650,000 in federal funds for school meals, canceled bus services for 14 campuses and proposed giving up nearly half a billion in unused school construction money.

  • 4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Megan Tagami

    This article was originally published in Honolulu Civil Beat. Sarah Osofsky returned to school last year to earn her master’s degree in social work, hoping to give back to her community and find a job that would pay enough to survive Hawaiʻi’s high cost of living. Now, less than two weeks away from graduation, the mother of two is struggling to find a position that can sustain her family.

  • 4 weeks ago | civilbeat.org | Megan Tagami

    Hawaiʻi has been recruiting teachers from the Philippines for several years to address the state’s ongoing teacher shortage. Two days after she was awakened by armed federal immigration agents pounding at her door, a Maui teacher said she remained too frightened to be identified publicly — despite being a natural-born U.S. citizen.

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Megan Tagami
Megan Tagami @MeganTagami
27 Sep 23

It’s official: I’m back at @civilbeat, covering education! I’m so happy to return to the newsroom and report on education in my home state. Check out my first story here, and send any tips, questions or thoughts to [email protected]!

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Honolulu Civil Beat @CivilBeat

Breaking: Three schools will resume classes after fall break, while a temporary facility is being built for students of the destroyed King Kamehameha III school, the DOE said. @MeganTagami #HInews https://t.co/0xOKrVoB1y

Megan Tagami
Megan Tagami @MeganTagami
16 Sep 23

RT @collegebeatCA: 🥁🥁🥁 Introducing the 2023-2024 cohort of the @CalMatters College Journalism Network! Over the course of the year our fel…

Megan Tagami
Megan Tagami @MeganTagami
1 Sep 23

RT @shaanthx: my @dailybruin story on deliberations behind a proposed UC ethnic studies entrance requirement is a finalist for @acpress !!…