Aloha and Mahalo for visiting the Hawaii Charter School Administrative Office website. The CSAO is is the state office that provides support, oversight and guidance to Hawai’i’s 31 unique community based innovative charter schools and to prospective charter school applicants. Whether you are a parent, a student, a charter school applicant or one of our great charter school leaders, we hope you will find this site to be a valuable and timely source of information. At the CSAO, it is our goal to work with innovative education leaders who are committed to schools of choice that complement and enhance the traditional public school system while fostering creative, innovative solutions to improve public charter school success and raise student achievement. Thank you for taking the time to explore Hawaii’s public charter school system and to learn about the innovative and exceptional work taking place in our schools. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if we can be of any assistance. We look forward to talking with you soon.

CSAO Staff