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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Commerce, Department of Human Resources, and the Department of Education hosted its first week-long fair that took place Monday, August 16th through Thursday, August 19, 2021.
MONDAY: WORKSHOP & MEAL WITH A MENTOR
Summer Youth Employment Program...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While the confirmation in the House of the Acting Director of the Department of Education (DOE) Talauega Dr. Samasoni Asaeli takes place today at 11a.m, many issues regarding problems affecting several schools around the island were discussed in the house chamber last...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Education Department director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga, during the ASDOE presentation last Friday at the cabinet meeting held at the Tafuna Elementary School gym, shared highlights from what the department describes as “Special Interest Projects”.
Among them is a new...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In July, 2015, Congresswoman Aumua Amata announced a substantial $2.3 million grant from the US Department of Education (USDOE) to the Territory of American Samoa. At the time, Aumua said, “It is crucial that we do all we can to prepare our young people for the future...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Educational Reform Task Force (ERTF) has drafted a proposed bill that, according to ERTF chairman Utu Abe Malae, "significantly restructures the form of public education in the Territory, and further updates the current statutory scheme which dates from the 1960s and...

![This photo posted to the American Samoa Visitors Bureau (ASVB) Facebook page shows some of the students who attended the day-two Commerce Department Summer Youth Program Job Fair last week. [photo: ASVB] Summer Youth Program Job Fair participants](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/job_fair_students.jpg?itok=W0ctZdHz)
![This Samoa News file photo taken at Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School last year shows the portable toilets. [SN file photo] Portable toilets at Nuuuli Vo-Tech](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/0400_portable_toilets_nvhs.jpg?itok=BhaGWFUb)
![Education Department director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga during the ASDOE presentation last Friday at the cabinet meeting held at the Tafuna Elementary School gym shared highlights from what the department describes as “Special Interest Projects”. [photo: FS] Education Department director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga speaking at cabinet meeting last week.](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/doe_special_interest.jpg?itok=aFPmyYcc)
![On July 2, 2018 — last week Monday — 29 ECE Head Start teachers, who have completed the required University of Hawaii Early Childhood courses to earn the equivalent of the Child Development Associate Credential and are now qualified as ECE Center Assistant Teachers, were awarded their certificates by UH Manoa Principal Investigators, Dr. Deborah Zuercher and Laura Laolagi. [Courtesy photo] 29 ECE Head Start teachers](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ece_head_start_course_completion_cropped.jpg?itok=cg95GEK-)
![ERTF chairman Utu Abe Malae [SN file photo] ERTF chairman Utu Abe Malae [SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Utu%20file%20photo_0813_3.jpg?itok=O4QSesw1)