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: Supreme Court of Hawaii Blog (Unofficial)Federal court requires Department of Education to fulfill obligations to homeless kids
By The Blog Team
?The DOE?s disregard of the McKinney-Vento Act has virtually guaranteed that the poor and homeless children of Hawaii will become poor and homeless adults,? said William Durham, an attorney with Lawyers for Equal Justice. ?The DOE has ignored these problems for years, and it is deplorable that these children needed a court order from a federal judge for the DOE to do the right thing and comply with the law.?
Did the Board of Education discuss this case with its legal counsel at its most recent meeting? No one knows. The BOE's meeting agenda stated: "Executive Session . . . Consultation with the Attorney General on Legal Matters." It's anybody's guess what those legal matters were.
Full post as published by Supreme Court of Hawaii Blog (Unofficial) on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).
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