First published in 2009, the Ho‘okele News is one of the various avenues for Island Pacific Academy students to express their thoughts and opinions in an open forum.  As part of IPA’s focus on developing independent thinkers and learners, the students manage the paper’s content and oversee editing and design responsibilities.  Creating and overseeing the newspaper enables students to develop critical thinking abilities, technological proficiency, sound writing and editing techniques, and ethical reasoning skills.  Within this collaborative process, students cultivate their voices as they support one another in developing creative solutions to their mistakes and dilemmas.   The goal of the Ho‘okele News staff will always be to tell the truth and to be fair and balanced in its news coverage, even when it does not report the “good” news.