Keep building the momentum...
Contact Governor Lingle and our legislators: ask them to fund furlough Fridays now!
Governor Linda Lingle
State Capitol, Room 415
Honolulu, Hawai`i 96813
Phone: (808) 586-0221 or 586-0222 or 586-0034
e-mail: governor.lingle@hawaii.gov
Senator Gary Hooser
Hawai'i State Capitol, Room 214
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone 808-586-6030; from Kauai, toll free 274-3141 + 66030
e-mail:senhooser@capitol.hawaii.gov
Representative (District 14) Mina Morita
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 314
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-8435; fax 808-586-8437
from Kauai, toll free 274-3141 + 68435
e-mail:repmorita@capitol.hawaii.gov
Representative (District 16) Roland D. Sagum III
Post Office Box 25
Lawai, Kauai, Hawaii 96765
phone: 652-9811
e-mail: repsagum@capitol.hawaii.gov
Representative (District 15) James Tokioka
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 322
415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
phone 808-586-6270 (from Kauai, toll free 274-3141 + 66270)
e-mail: reptokioka@capitol.hawaii.gov
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(via e-mail)
governor.lingle@hawaii.gov
DATE
Dear Governor Lingle:
I am writing to ask that you please work out a way to restore the 34 (17 days x 2 years) furlough days for public school teachers and students. I voted for you because of your commitment to improve the public education system in Hawaii. I am asking that you act now as to not worsen the system.
A student's academic success is directly related to the number of days he or she spends in school. Hawaii's public school students simply cannot afford to lose 34 instructional days over the next two years.
On Kauai, we have a solid middle class attendance in the public schools. These furlough days have caused some of my friends to re-think their choice to opt for public schools. This will have dire consequences for the future of the public school system on Kauai, if more and more middle class families opt out of the public schools.
Please consider tapping into the Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund for additional sources of income, and please also consider an increase to the GE tax, as well as progressive "sin taxes."
Declining the quality of public school education in Hawaii, if only for a year or two, will impact Hawaii's people for years to come; and quite possibly, the public school system will never recover from this two-year setback.
Thank you,
YOUR NAME
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