Thursday on Eight Forty-Eight, WBEZ education reporters Linda Lutton and Becky Vevea give the latest from Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Teachers Union.

For the rest of the hour we celebrate the Festival of Aloha at the Old Town School of Folk Music, which starts this week. Festival director and Chicago-by-way-of Hawaii musician Lanialoha stops by to chat about the sounds of the South Pacific and perform with a small band and her two children.