Hawaii, state file 11

Coverage summary

• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
• Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.

• 57Units in frameExhaustive frame
• 57Readable subsetThe frame less NOT VERIFIABLE and NOT AUDITED: every unit whose pages were read
• 0PROGRAM rows with a weak-evidence flag

As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.

District coverage

One row per unit in frame. The table opens on each unit's coverage code and flags; Detailed adds the evidence note, the source, how the page was read, the pass at which the code was set, and every other column. Search, filter by code or agency type, and page through every row.

• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
• Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.

Operator silence

Counted in both directions for each statewide provider: the provider's own published count, and the agencies in frame that name the provider as a Deaf and hard of hearing service mechanism, named outright.

As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.

Publication against identified population

The state does not publish counts by agency, so this measure is not reported; it is never supplied where the state does not publish them (FRM-005 section 3).

The FRM-002 measure is not supported for Hawaii. The one unit coded PROGRAM is the statewide district itself, as operator of the school, so the numerator would be the whole population and the measure would say nothing. What can be said: 41 of the 185 school-age pupils with hearing impairment were in a separate school in fall 2024 (22 percent) in the federal file, and the department's count puts 49 pupils at HSDB in SY 2024-25; no charter school publishes a deaf or hard of hearing program; the publication of the state's capacity is the department's HSDB page and the school's own site.

State indicators

As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.

Identified population over time

The count of identified students with hearing impairment and with deaf-blindness as the primary category, for each year the state publishes, as published. Where two instruments give a count for the same year, both rows are shown with their sources. No change between years is computed.

As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.

Fiscal channels

The channels at FRM-003, each with its status. Amounts are as published, nominal, and marked enacted or appropriated; they are not added across channels, and no per-pupil figure is computed.

Every figure a channel carries

Where a channel carries a series, each fiscal year as published with its basis (actual, revised, enacted, appropriated, or as the instrument names it). The figures are not added across years or channels.

As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.

Workforce

The standards and the supply behind a Deaf child's classroom: the qualification the state requires of an educational interpreter, the training and preparation programs, the teacher of the deaf credential, shortage designations, the paraprofessional, intervener, and audiologist standards, and the special education workforce. Each figure is as published; no ratio is computed.

As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.

Schools and programs

As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.

The remaining columns (ages or grades, communication and language approach, ASL availability, residential service, enrollment, cost to family, governance basis, accreditation, leadership, notes, and primary source) are part of the licensed state file. Access tiers and the licence request route

The frame

The frame is the state's one local education agency, its fifteen complex areas and every charter school of the reference year: 57 rows. The instruments are the department's Official Enrollment Count SY 2024-25 (15 complex areas, 258 department schools, 38 charter schools), the federal CCD 2024-25 (one LEA, LEAID 1500030; 298 school rows, 40 charter flags) and the State Public Charter School Commission's Find a Charter School roster read on 15 October 2026 (40 schools). The 41 charter rows are the Commission's 40 and Kamalani Academy (school code 553), which operated in SY 2024-25 (110 pupils; CCD Open) and operates no school on the run date: NOT OPERATING under D-045, counted in the 57 and out of the operating total. Three of the Commission's 40 opened after the reference year (Namahana School, SY 2025-26; Parkway Village Preschool and Waikiki Community Preschool, SY 2026-27, Pre-K only) and stay in frame as units that exist on the run date. The Hawaii School for the Deaf and the Blind is a school of the department (code 470), an entity of the Schools and Programs sheet read as a seeded set, not a coverage row. Every charter was read on its own website in the rendered browser on 15 October 2026 and the eleven with keyword hits or a failed read were read again on 16 October; the department and the school were read as seeded sets; the Commission's website field was compared with the host read (D-043); every keyword hit was reviewed by the compiler against its capture.

Frame count

57

Frame

Exhaustive

The deaf and blind boundary decision

The school serves deaf, hard of hearing, blind and deafblind pupils under one roof and one budget line (Program ID 17201), so the school's enrollment of 49 is not a deaf count. Deaf-blindness is carried where the instruments name it: the federal 618 file prints 1 school-age pupil with a primary category of deaf-blindness for fall 2024 (0 early childhood); the department's ADAPT viewer suppresses visual impairment and deaf-blindness (a residual of 38 against 20,572); the National Deafblind Child Count prints 56 served and 52 on the December 1 count for 2024 on its own definition (about 90 percent of its count have additional disabilities). The three are recorded, not reconciled. HAR 8-60-39(c) defines deaf-blindness as the deaf or hard of hearing criteria with the visual disability criteria and 'severe communication and other developmental and educational needs'; the Hawaiʻi and Pacific Deaf-Blind Project is a federal technical assistance grant at the University of Hawaii, not a placement.

Reference years and frameworks

Enrollment and child count

SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025): the department's Official Enrollment Count SY 2024-25 and the fall 2024 federal IDEA 618 count beside the ADAPT viewer 2024-2025; later years in the notes only

Fiscal

FY 2024-25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025, the year that funds SY 2024-25): the FY 2025 appropriation summary and the FY 2024-25 per-pupil expenditure report; FY 2025-26 and FY 2026-27 as context

Institutional framework

As served on 15 and 16 October 2026 (Central): the Hawaii Revised Statutes and the Hawaii Administrative Rules as the Legislature, the Board of Education and the Department of Health post them

Frameworks applied

FRM-001 1.0, FRM-002 1.0, FRM-003 1.0, FRM-004 1.0, FRM-005 1.0, STD-002 1.2

The method as applied

Normalizations in force

Every normalization applied in this run: the FRM-004 set and the state's own standing false positives, as the file records them.

• Federal nutrition boilerplate naming ASL and the Federal Relay Service (the USDA nondiscrimination statement on school-meal pages: Kualapuʻu, Voyager, Waiʻalae, Waimea Middle, Kamalani) is not hearing content.
• 'We look forward to hearing from you' (DreamHouse ʻEwa Beach, SEEQS), 'hearing alarms or bells' in drill instructions (Waimea Middle), a privacy policy's 'signing in' (Alakaʻi O Kauaʻi), an immersion page's 'by hearing, seeing, and speaking the language' (Kulia Academy) and a newsletter 'sign up' or 'Signing Event' (Namahana) are standing false positives.
• MENTION requires a hearing term on a held capture (FRM-004). Namahana School's FAQ names 'targeted special education services provided by Namahana staff as well as through the HIDOE area complex' with no deaf, hard of hearing, interpreter or sign language term, so the v1.0 MENTION moves to NONE FOUND with the mechanism recorded. Farrington-Kaiser-Kalani's MENTION rests on the school's name in its directory school list.
• PROGRAM for the department rests on its operation of HSDB (D-038: the department is the operator; school code 470 is the operator code on the department rows). The fourteen other complex areas, which publish nothing of their own, are NONE FOUND on their directory entries.
• NOT OPERATING under D-045 is decided from the roster instruments: Kamalani Academy is in the department's SY 2024-25 count and the CCD 2024-25 (Open) and absent from the SY 2025-26 and SY 2026-27 counts and from the Commission's roster of 15 October 2026; its site still answers and was read on both days for the record.
• D-043: the Commission's roster is the directory for the charters and carries a website for every school read; two roster addresses redirect to a new domain (Myron B. Thompson Academy to mbta.me; Waimea Middle to its Google Sites host) and Kamalani's host was believed from the school's name because the Commission's page answered 404. The CCD website field is empty for every Hawaii school. The department and the complex areas were read at the department's host.
• The identified counts by unit are not published in Hawaii (one LEA; the ADAPT viewer and the federal file carry the state total only); every row carries null with the instrument named in the publication measure.
• D-040: the eleven units with a keyword hit or a failed read at attempt one (15 October 2026 Central) were read again on 16 October 2026 Central, within seven days; the capture file names carry the UTC date, 16 October, for both days, and the attempt-two files carry the -a2 unit suffix. No unit is NOT VERIFIABLE and no deep review mark is set.
• Fiscal headline FY 2024-25 under D-075: every channel is read from the FY 2025 appropriation summary and the FY 2024-25 per-pupil expenditure report, with FY 2025-26 and FY 2026-27 in the series as context; v1.0's FY 2026-27 headlines are replaced, not corrected.
• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication on the unit's own site, not about service delivery: every charter pupil's FAPE is the department's under HRS 302D-30(b) and the department publishes no list of the schools its interpreters serve.

The method and its known limitations

The frame rests on three instruments read on 15 October 2026: the department's Official Enrollment Count SY 2024-25, the federal CCD 2024-25 and the Commission's roster; the complex areas are administrative regions that publish nothing of their own and are coded on their entries in the department's directory page. Every charter was read on its own website in the rendered browser (the Hawaii closure probe v1, 16 pages or 42 seconds a run, menus widened for the small charter sites) on 15 October 2026 Central, and the eleven units with a keyword hit or a failed read were read again on 16 October 2026 Central; the capture file names carry the UTC date, 16 October, for both days. Pages beyond the probe's budget were not read (queue_left in the probe records: up to 194 for the largest site). NONE FOUND is a statement about what a unit publishes, not about what it delivers: every charter pupil's FAPE is the department's under HRS 302D-30(b), and the department publishes no list of the schools its fifteen interpreter positions serve. The identified population is published at the state level only (the ADAPT viewer and the federal file); no count by complex area or charter exists, so the publication measure is not computable and every row carries null with the instrument named. The fiscal headline is FY 2024-25 under D-075, read from the department's own appropriation summary, which names itself a draft pending enactment of HB1800 CD1 (as of 25 June 2024); the appropriations act was not read; the per-pupil expenditure report (FINAL 12/11/2025) carries the actual. The school's SY 2024-25 financial plan is not served. The IDEA Part B and Part C award amounts for Hawaii were not retrieved. The Teacher Standards Board's licensing field lists are PDFs on a second origin, not read, so the teacher-of-the-deaf credential is recorded as not published with the instrument named. The Board of Education's Policy 900-5 (Rights of Students who are Deaf, Hard-of-hearing, or Deaf-blind) is listed in the Board's index and its text was not read. The Comprehensive Service Center's host serves about eight seconds a page; two of its pages timed out on both tries. The National Center on Deafblindness answered a plain fetch with its bot screen; its pages were read live and captured as rendered text. The Civil Beat count and the Data Book figures stand on the v1.0 record and were not re-read. Archive snapshots are requested at the release stage (archive_lookup.py), not during the audit.

Disclosure

Novara Consulting Group LLC, the publisher of the Index, has no financial, partnership, contract, license or funding relationship with any Hawaii body named in this file, and no public-purpose extract exists between the firm, its principals, its brands or its instruments and any such body. No request for this file is on the Index's record; it was built in the Index's own sequence (the v1.0 file of 22 August 2026 and this v2.0 re-audit under NAT-004 v1.6) with no editorial input from any body named. No Hawaii body was contacted, formally or informally, before the notice stage. Confirmed by both co-founders on 15 October 2026 (the signed declarations, 04_Verification/11_Hawaii_Declaration_Packet_HMG_and_RPO_SIGNED_2026-10-15.pdf) under GOV-004 Rule 3.

Compiled

October 31, 2026

Notice and correction record

Notice sent

October 16, 2026

Window closed

October 30, 2026

Responses

No response was received before the window closed.

Contact of record

Notice, comment, and correction on this state file reach the Index at the contact of record the file names.

Mailbox

notice@ndedi.org

Postal address

Novara Consulting Group LLC, 18140 Zane St NW #159, Elk River, MN 55330

Send a correction or a comment on this state file

Version history

• v2.0

  October 31, 2026, cause: re-audit

  Re-audit from the v1.0 standard (NAT-004 v1.6; D-075 fiscal headline FY 2024-25; D-070 cycle label SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025)). Frame re-verified on the department's Official Enrollment Count SY 2024-25, the CCD 2024-25 and the Commission's roster (57 rows: the one LEA, 15 complex areas, 41 charter rows; Kamalani Academy NOT OPERATING under D-045); closure read of every charter in the rendered browser on 15 October 2026 Central and of the eleven units with hits or a failed read again on 16 October (D-040), the department and the school as seeded sets, 15 statewide reads, every keyword hit reviewed against its capture under the series rule that a MENTION needs a hearing term (1 PROGRAM, 1 MENTION, 54 NONE FOUND, 1 NOT OPERATING, 0 NOT VERIFIABLE; Namahana School moves from MENTION to NONE FOUND); the federal 618 child count, environments and personnel files read (207 hearing impairment, 41 school-age in a separate school; interpreters 10.02 FTE); the department's ten count workbooks (HSDB 53 to 45 over SY 2017-18 to SY 2026-27), its FY 2025, FY 2026 and FY 2027 appropriation summaries and the FY 2024-25 per-pupil expenditure report (Program ID 17201 at 4,115,326 dollars appropriated, 3,901,909 spent), the school's financial plans, the WASC accreditation letter (through 2031), HAR 8-60 and HAR 11-218 as served, the three enrolled acts, the DCAB Act 204 report, annual report and June 2026 credentialed list, the Legislature's 2025-2026 measures; the Comprehensive Service Center's funding corrected to its own statement; the Workforce sheet and the D-071 organizations added; data modules to the schema 1.3 contract (entities.py authored, hi_data.py generated), the eight-sheet workbook, the narrative with Annex A, the trail with the delta table, reconcile.py and the STD-003 checklist; stop-three handback before notice. Noticed 16 October 2026 (seven bodies; no response); released 31 October 2026.

• v1.0

  August 22, 2026, cause: first release

  First release: narrative profile, workbook (seven sheets including Fiscal), verification trail, prompt as issued, evidence source record, URL manifest, evidence captures, and verification scripts with the release reconciliation output (245 checks, all pass). Frame of 56 units coded 1 PROGRAM, 2 MENTION, 53 NONE FOUND, with zero NOT VERIFIABLE and zero NOT AUDITED after the browser closure pass. Headline findings: no statute establishes the state's deaf school and its only statutory trace carries a name stale since 1995; Hawaii publishes educational environments by disability category, breaking the series' six-state streak, and deaf students are 31 percent of separate school placements (SY 2021-22); the department's fifteen educational interpreter positions have three filled; the constitution bars any market layer. The row's Cause column was added on 16 October 2026 (the changelog carried four columns).

Checks record

Release checklist version

1.4

Run date

October 16, 2026

Reconciliation output

11_Hawaii_reconciliation_output_v2.0_2026-10-31.txt

Run ledger identifiers

R-2026-10-16-01, R-2026-10-16-02, R-2026-10-16-03

Custody and report checks

Report checks output

11_Hawaii_report_checks_2026-10-31.txt

UK spellings in the Index's own prose

0

Files in the evidence manifest

749

Evidence manifest check

Pass

Sources with an archive snapshot

42

Sources with no archive snapshot

15

Archive lookups that failed

0

Deposit

DOI for version 2.0

10.5281/zenodo.23429066

DOI for every version (resolves to the newest)

10.5281/zenodo.23429065

Deposit record

zenodo.org/records/23429066

Deposited

October 17, 2026

Licence on the record

Summary layer under the free terms; the licensed files are restricted on the record (STD-004 v1.0 section 3) (licensed files restricted; metadata and the summary export open)

SHA-256 of the package as imported

4be7e7f9cc9d349c0c99c0755dcb09c11330e928f76f3f67882e26c715ac5c3f

Sources

Each source with its access date and its Internet Archive status as the archive status file recorded it at the run: a snapshot found, with its date and address; no snapshot; a lookup that failed; or not requested.

Gaps a records request could close

Each gap this file records that a request to a public body could close, with the record requested, the route, and the request as the file records it. A gap with an identifier has been asked; a gap without one has not yet been asked. The gap stands until the record is published.

As of October 31, 2026, the release date of this version.

The narrative profile

What the narrative covers

• In plain language
• Summary of findings
• Governance and legal framework
• The state school
• Communication and language approach
• The statewide outreach and early intervention layer
• The department, the complex areas and the charter schools
• The private and listening and spoken language sector
• The market layer
• What the units publish
• Data, and what the state does not measure
• Fiscal allocation and legislative context
• The workforce
• Open items
• Notice and correction
• Sources
• Annex A. How to read this file

The licensed state file for Hawaii carries the narrative profile of this version (12,119 words, rendered here for a licensee), the report and its evidence supplement as PDF and Word, and the workbook with every sheet, and it carries the same figures as this page. It is licensed per state, with a reduced-rate product for Deaf-led and disability organizations, and under the State Partner and national licences. How to request a licence

Downloads

Summary export, free

The frame, the tallies, the operator silence counts, the indicators, and the fiscal channels of this version. With them, every other part of this page that is free: the plain-language summary, the method as applied, the identified population over time, the workforce, the Schools and Programs directory, the records requests, the contact of record, and the archive status of the sources. The District Coverage rows and the identified population by agency are viewable on this page and are not in the export.

• Summary (CSV)

The licensed state file

These files are served to a signed-in account whose licence covers this state. Access tiers and the licence request route

Evidence captures, prompts, declarations, and drafts stay in the repository and are not published.