Hawaii Gov. Nixes Union-Board Furlough Plan
The Hawaii board of education and state teachers' unions have come up with a plan to end that state's by-now infamous teacher furloughs.
But Gov. Linda Lingle will reject the plan, according to this story, because of one major sticking point. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say 30 million of them, because that's how over-budget the union-board proposal is, Lingle asserts.
Essentially, the union-board plan would bring back all school personnel rather than the bare-bones staff that Lingle is willing to fund. And the governor is no
