I've heard of letters going out and would encourage all of you to help with this effort. We targeted our representatives: Barbara Marumoto, Les Ihara and Governor Lingle. I added Neil Abercrombie to my list.
Here's the letter I sent out, with slight variations, to them all:

Dear Neil,
My son is a 2nd grader at Wai'alae Elementary Public Charter School and his three younger sisters will be joining him there over the next few years. My husband and I have been very happy with the education he is r… Continue

Many thanks to people who put together and came together for the Halloween Party ! Thanks for the fun games and activities for the kids - I want you guys around for every party we have !!!

Thanks also to all who stopped by and/or stayed all evening. I believe that the kids enjoyed themselves thoroughly and I hope that they have great memories of Wai`alae for years to come !!

Great job on the Video Russ and Mel,this was the first time I've seen it,also Ups to all the awesome parents involved,thanks again for everything you guys do....Go Wolves

Wai`alae School now has a Twitter account:

http://twitter.com/Waialae

If you follow @Waialae (the name of Wai`alae School's Twitter Account), you will see updates in your Twitter stream when the Wai`alae Weekly or any other "news" item is posted on www.waialae.edu.

The Wai`alae School Twitter account is a private account and requires you to send a request to follow it. All follow requests will be manually verified by the account adminis… Continue

The day started at 9:00, though we were late some minutes. The rest of the group had gone in to do the Hawaiian plant nursery tour with Aunty Marian. This is at the bend in the road where Haiku Rd and Kahuhipa St meet, and Jessica came out to catch us up with the rest of the group.

Aunty Jessica checked to make sure we all had what we ne… Continue