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This article written by Megan Tagami and Thomas Heaton is about the Hawai’i Department of Education and Civil Beat’s report on a state audit on how the department has not taken efforts seriously to meet a legislative mandate to spend 30% of its food budget locally by 2030. The article talks about multiple examples of how the Department of Education is slacking on multiple efforts, such as being off on milk purchases, lacking details on local farmers’ production and having dodgy data in reports.

This demonstrates quality investigative journalism as it uses reports and data to uncover problems the department is facing regarding missing payments/audits and gives good specific evidence, not just anecdotes. It gives good data and information regarding deconstruction the DOE’s plan of placing their efforts on a 150 million dollar regional kitchen as the solution to local food goals. There is also given evidence on food fraud and math failures. Overall, this is a great piece of investigative journalism that teaches me how to uncover sketchiness and troubles in departments.