SPCSC Strategic Plan

On January 23, 2025*, the Commission approved revisions to its Strategic Plan for Chartering and Authorizing of Public Charter Schools . Click here to view the revised Strategic Plan.

Our mission is to authorize, assess, and acclaim a portfolio of high-quality charter schools that offers diversity, innovation, and excellence for students and families throughout Hawaiʻi.

Our vision is to empower our communities to create public schools of excellence.

VALUES

The Commission adopts the following values that helps describe the Commission’s beliefs and ethos when authorizing, assessing, and acclaiming high-quality charter schools of excellence within the portfolio. It is our belief that when we are tied to our schools (pili) both in accountability and uprightness (pono), our work results in the blossoming of our schools and students (mohala).

Mohala
Pili
Pono
We believe that our work results in the blossoming of our schools
We are tied to our schools
We do this work for accountability and uprightness at all times
Mohala i ka wai ka maka o ka pua.*

Unfolded by the water are the faces of the flowers.

Flowers thrive where there is water, as thriving people are found where living conditions are good.

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Pili ʻohā, he kāmau mai mawaho.*

A taro off-shoot relationship added to the outside of the corm.

One who was not a relative, yet is a member of the household.

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He ʻike ʻana ia i ka pono.*

It is a recognizing of the right thing.

One has seen the right thing to do and has done it.

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*Pukui, Mary Kawena. ʻŌlelo Noʻeau, Hawaiian Proverbs and Poetical Sayings. Bishop Museum Press. Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. 1983

ALOHA SPIRIT (Hawaiʻi Revised Statute § 5-7.5)
At the foundation of our adopted values is the Aloha Spirit. As the Commission is a Hawaiʻi state agency, we understand our responsibility, obligation, and service to the people of Hawaiʻi and believe that our Commission values (pili, pono, mohala) provide intent and purpose to the Aloha Spirit: Akahai (kindness with tenderness), Lōkahi (unity with harmony), ʻOluʻolu (agreeable with pleasantness), Haʻahaʻa (humility with modesty), and Ahonui (patience with perseverance).

GOALS

The Commission’s three goals for implementing its Strategic Plan embodies a continuous improvement process, within each goal and among all three goals, moving it to higher and greater efficacy, to attain its vision through its mission.

Goal 1
GOAL 2
GOAL 3
GOAL 4
To authorize a portfolio of high-quality public charter schools of excellence that provide diverse and innovative educational opportunities.
To assess the performance of a portfolio of high-quality charter schools of excellence to meet and exceed statutory and contractual expectations
To acclaim the portfolio of high-quality public charter schools of excellence that will model and contribute best practices to Hawaiʻi’s public education system.
To design systems for continuous improvement that are supportive and responsive to public charter schools and stakeholders.
Diverse and Innovative
Meet and Exceed
Model and Contribute
Supportive and Responsive


On July 14, 2022, the Commission approved the definition of high-quality charter schools and diverse educational opportunities for the purpose of Goal 1 of the Strategic Plan.

On May 25, 2023, the Commission approved the Characteristics of Innovative Practices in Public Charter Schools for the purpose of Goal 1 of the Strategic Plan.

*The Commission adopted its Strategic Plan on June 28, 2019, and approved a revised version on September 23, 2021.