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In 1896 a law of the Republic of Hawaiʻi made English "the medium and basis of instruction" in all public and private schools, and by 1900 there were no Hawaiian-language…
By the early 1980s, ʻAha Pūnana Leo counted fewer than 50 children under 18 who were fully fluent in Hawaiian.
Inspired by Māori Kōhanga Reo preschools in Aotearoa (New Zealand), Hawaiian language educators and families founded ʻAha Pūnana Leo in 1983 and opened the first Pūnana Leo…