The Hawaiʻi State Constitution imposes an affirmative mandate on the State to provide in all public schools a “Hawaiian education program consisting of language, culture and history…” This unique constitutional provision was added during the 1978 Constitutional Convention – a space in time that coincided with the Second Hawaiian Renaissance and the resulting codification of many constitutional protections for Kānaka Maoli across Hawaiʻi. This provision was notably passed resoundingly by the people of Hawaiʻi following nearly a century of haole missionary and foreign interests working actively to marginalize and eliminate Hawaiian culture from public schools and discourse. This mandate, in theory, would serve as a critical turning point in which Native Hawaiian culture, history, and values would be integrated into Hawai’i’s oft-criticized and centralized public education system. This long overdue provision, perhaps predictably, has gone largely unfulfilled in both K-12 public school settings and within the University of Hawaiʻi System, the state’s only public university. The recent development and integration of ʻāina based education models in some K-12 public schools serve as a potential vehicle with which to operationalize this mandate.