Keiki testifies in Hawaiian to support Hawaiian language assessment bill

[Keola Donaghy]

Aloha kākou. Some of you may have heard recent efforts to develop testing for our Hawaiian immersion students, and the current efforts to fund development of such tests. Here is a video of a grade school student testifying in Hawaiian at the state legislature (in committee) in support of the legislation mandating the state DOE to develop an appropriate test..

http://hawaii.education.blogs.civilbeat.com/post/17183464985/keiki-testifies-in-hawaiian-to-support-hawaiian

Keola


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Keola Donaghy                                           
Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani             keola at leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu 
University of Hawai'i at Hilo           http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/

"Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam."  (Irish Gaelic saying)
A country without its language is a country without its soul.
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