There’s a movement afoot in Hawaii to do away with the elected school board…The source of frustration, according to the group leading the anti-Board charge, Children First, are Furlough Fridays, a cost-cutting measure that the Board of Ed said would save over $400 million over two years, but also gave the Aloha State “the fewest instructional days in the nation” last year. Hawaii, of course, has the only statewide district in the nation…Read it here.
