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HONOLULU — Hundreds of angry parents protested Hawaii’s statewide public-school shutdown Friday, saying their children are losing out on education because of government budget cuts.
Hawaii closed 256 public schools Friday, the first of 17 teacher furlough days planned for this school year, giving the island state the shortest school year in the nation at 163 days. Most states have 180 school days.
The protesters, many of them bused in from schools across Oahu, formed a sea of yellow shirts with the message “My Child Left Behind,” a play on the federal No Child Left Behind initiative.
