Rapid help pledged for mold-plagued Holualoa Elementary School
Gov. Josh Green pledged Wednesday that he’ll approve funding to fix up the nearly 140-year-old Holualoa Elementary School on Hawaii island “the minute it hits my desk,” and a top state Department of Education official said he expects as many as 17 mold-plagued classrooms to be cleaned and repaired over the summer, in time for next school year.
However, the state teachers union and many community members said they feel the remaining three months of the school year is too long to leave many of Holualoa’s students and teachers in school facilities damaged not only by mold, but termites, rats and volcanic earthquakes.
