Our Schools Are Falling Apart.
Our Keiki Deserve Better.
We are a community movement dedicated to advocating for safer, healthier, and more modern educational environments across Hawaii.
The Current State of Our Schools
We are witnessing a critical deterioration in our educational infrastructure.
From temporary power lines, creating dangerous electrical issues, to compromised structural integrity, these conditions pose a direct threat to the safety of our students, teachers and staff. We must act now to ensure that every school facility from classrooms, to gyms, cafeterias, playgrounds and administrative buildings are places of protection, not sites of risk.
The DOE's list of deferred repairs and maintenance of our schools is endless. Millions of dollars sit in DOE accounts unused.
In July 2025, Hawaii Governor Josh Green line-item vetoed $90 million in school maintenance funding the legislature had approved, citing the DOE's inability to spend what it already has.
That is worth knowing. It is also an opening: the 2027 legislative session is a chance for new leadership on school facilities funding -- including support for moving repair funds to the State of Hawaii School Facilities Authority, which has a plan to move faster than the DOE's current process. Clearly, the current system is broken.
Dangerously compromised temporary electrical power fixes.
A playground out of commission for over three years.
A Maui County School
How You Can Help Fix Our Schools - Take Action Today
Advocate for safer schools in our community.
There is a simple way for you to help: Take a photo of what's broken at your school -- a leaking roof, a classroom with no working AC, playgrounds in need of repair, classrooms in disrepair, bathrooms with clogged-up sinks, non-flushing toilets. Help us share all of your school's repair and maintenance issues to wake up our State so that we can "Fix Our Schools".
Upload your photo on this website with your school's name under the "How You Can Help Section" below, and if you know, include how long the repairs have been on the list which will be helpful. All submissions will remain anonymous unless you want to be identified. We know some principals and teachers fear retribution from their leadership.
Lānaʻi High & Elementary School's Story of Major Power Issues & Disrepair:
Five years ago, the central transformers blew out at Lānaʻi High & Elementary School (LHES). What replaced it was supposed to be temporary: a patched-together power line, still running across campus today. The effects reach further than one hallway -- the auto shop lift sits unusable, classroom outlets meant for student technology do not work, fuses blow without warning, and some classrooms have gone without working AC; one of two boys' locker rooms remains closed due to a power line running through it-- an unsafe environment for students, teachers, and staff.
Ask yourself: Would it take you five years to fix a power issue in your home? A leak in your roof? Why do we accept this from our State leaders for our schools?
A concerned Lānaʻi community member and advocate for our schools spent the last six months writing letters, sending photos, and requesting meetings, only to get passed from one state education department official to another. She reached out to over 90 education leaders and elected officials, to receive only a handful of responses -- and no real promise of help. Most comments were, "LHES is on the list and funds are an issue. We will look into it", yet no real action.
In addition, there was an inordinate amount of trash and stuff scattered across the campus. Very demoralizing for students to walk through and among on a daily basis. See the photos of the piled-up trash below.
It is time to Fix Our Schools.... Please help us by documenting your school's issues by posting them on our website.
Impact Stories
Real-world stories of students and teachers navigating unsafe conditions and advocating for change in Hawaii's schools.
Public School Bathrooms in Deplorable conditions
LHES is not an outlier: It is a preview.
Hawaii's Department of Education oversees 258 public school campuses, many decades old, with a maintenance backlog that outpaces available funding year after year — while hundreds of millions in allocated repair funds sit unspent or delayed. Rural schools like Lānaʻi's are consistently last in line. This isn't about one campus. It's about whether Hawaii's promise of safe, functional public schools holds true for every keiki, on every island.