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The More Green Talks About Homelessness, the Less He Does
Borreca: … Green knows he heads a state with problems; the biggest, mostly costly and apparently unsolvable one is housing. No governor has ignored the high cost of housing Hawaii’s citizens, but no one can walk or drive without seeing the peril of those living without secure housing. Just last week Honolulu emergency services rescued seven homeless people living under a bridge who were swept into a raging stream near Kapiolani Boulevard.
In that constitutionally- required budget message, Green 14 times used the word “homeless,” which gives one an understanding of what is top of mind for Hawaii’s chief executive….
No Hawaii official has found an immediate solution for the Maui crisis, or replaced the thousands of homes destroyed in the fire. (CLUE: ‘FEMA Trailers’) And even if there was a solution for the homes burned, it would not change the permanent problem of affordable housing for local families statewide…..
read … On Politics: Gov. Green’s retooled budget keeps eye on housing, statewide
Hawaii lags in preparing kids for kindergarten, state DOE report shows
SA: … On the Johns Hopkins University Ready for Kindergarten assessment, 29.6% of the kindergartners earned overall scores that classified them as “demonstrating readiness”; 39.5% were in the second tier, “approaching readiness”; and 30.9% were in the third tier, “emerging readiness.”
But results varied widely by school complex and island, often reflecting socioeconomic and demographic differences between neighborhoods — ranging from single-digit percentages of children demonstrating readiness for kindergarten in the Farrington, Waianae, Lanai and Hana complexes, to 58% in the Kaiser complex in East Oahu….
read … Hawaii lags in preparing kids for kindergarten, state DOE report shows
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