Fears grow of furlough-driven teacher exodus

Public school teachers say they still have not recovered from the “Furlough Fridays” education cuts of 2009 and 2010 — and now worry a new round of furloughs will force some teachers to leave the islands.

Hawaii still has not recouped the 1,000 teachers who were lost from the 17 days of Friday furloughs under the administration of former Gov. Linda Lingle, according to Corey Rosenlee, president of the Hawaii State Teachers Association. And teachers still have not gotten their overdue “step” pay increases that were frozen and never restored — meaning that teachers with 15 years of experience and those with 25 years essentially make the same salaries, he said.

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