Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Hawaii’s brain drain has accelerated from eroding the edges of island life to striking at its heart, pushing would-be health professionals, high-tech workers, business owners and other vital contributors to greener mainland pastures. Among the most alarming is an outmigration of teachers-in-training who comprise the core of an ailing education system tasked with developing thousands of young learners, some of whom aspire to become teachers themselves. Talk about compounding problems. ...read more read less