Hawaii Business - May 2013

May 2013

Cover Story
	Accountable for Results Here are three report cards on the state DOE's administrators, principals and teachers. What is being done about accountability in public education?

Cover Story

Accountable for Results

Here are three report cards on the state DOE's administrators, principals and teachers. What is being done about accountability in public education?

Features
	Report Card: Hawaii Teachers New contract ties compensation to effectiveness Stacy Yuen
	Report Card: DOE Principals School principals are evaluated yearly on test scores, creating a good "school culture" and other factors. Beverly Creamer
	Hawaii's Latinos Defy Stereotypes Hawaii's Hispanics are educated and affluent, and ready to play a bigger role in the Islands' future. Pavel Stankov
	Fit and Effective Hawaii Business Professionals 11 Hawaii executives explain how they fit workouts into their busy lives Paula Rath
	Report Card: School Administrators Fixing decades of bad management at the Department of Education Dennis Hollier

Features

Report Card: Hawaii Teachers

New contract ties compensation to effectiveness

Stacy Yuen

Report Card: DOE Principals

School principals are evaluated yearly on test scores, creating a good "school culture" and other factors.

Beverly Creamer

Hawaii's Latinos Defy Stereotypes

Hawaii's Hispanics are educated and affluent, and ready to play a bigger role in the Islands' future.

Pavel Stankov

Fit and Effective Hawaii Business Professionals

11 Hawaii executives explain how they fit workouts into their busy lives

Paula Rath

Report Card: School Administrators

Fixing decades of bad management at the Department of Education

Dennis Hollier

Departments
	Talk Story Talk Story with John Dean of Central Pacific Bank John Dean, CEO Of Central Pacific Bank, is named Hawaii’s Salesperson of the Year for 2013 David Tumilowicz
	Editor's Note Two Versions of Educational Reality The children of affluent families get all the breaks, but your children can still beat the system Steven Petranik
	Innovation Pelatron's Networking-on-the-Move system improves battlefield communications A Native Hawaiian-owned engineering and technology firm based in Mapunapuna has a developed a battlefield-ready networking and telecommunications system. Dennis Hollier
	This Month's Parting Shot: Parting Shot: Kamiya Papaya Behind the scenes at the Kamiya Papaya warehouse in Laie, Oahu.

Departments

Talk Story

Talk Story with John Dean of Central Pacific Bank

John Dean, CEO Of Central Pacific Bank, is named Hawaii’s Salesperson of the Year for 2013

David Tumilowicz

Editor's Note

Two Versions of Educational Reality

The children of affluent families get all the breaks, but your children can still beat the system

Steven Petranik

Innovation

Pelatron's Networking-on-the-Move system improves battlefield communications

A Native Hawaiian-owned engineering and technology firm based in Mapunapuna has a developed a battlefield-ready networking and telecommunications system.

Dennis Hollier

This Month's Parting Shot:

Parting Shot: Kamiya Papaya

Behind the scenes at the Kamiya Papaya warehouse in Laie, Oahu.

SmallBiz

	Starting a Business After Age 50 Here are more people who retired from one career only to launch another. by Lee Ann Bowman May 2013
	Lessons Learned: Launching a New Product What started two years ago as a healthy vitamin and mineral water to combat jet lag has turned into Aloha Friday Beverages, which are designed to keep everyone healthy, every day. by Beverly Creamer May 2013
	Ask the Expert: Preventing Financial Fraud How can you protect myself from Automated Clearing House fraud? Our expert provides security tips to protect businesses against hackers. by Jason Martin, President, Secure DNA May 2013
	5 Steps to Starting an eCommerce Business Maui-based Jennifer Varner, the founder of BellaBluMaternity.com, helps people start their own ecommerce companies by Jolyn Okimoto Rosa May 2013