Launching Namahana School on Kauaʻi’s North Shore is Kapua Lililehua Chandler’s kuleana and passion.
“My mission was to come home (after graduate school) and contribute to community,” Chandler says.
Since the school’s opening last August, students from the Haleléa and Koʻolau districts won’t have to commute up to three hours roundtrip to a tuition-free, public middle school because Namahana has 7th and 8th grades, with plans to add additional grades through high school…