Letter: Schools chief should refuse $10,000 pay raise

Dec. 8, 2023

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
State schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi spoke at a community meeting in Lahaina in August.

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CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM

State schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi spoke at a community meeting in Lahaina in August.

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If state schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi is smart, and I don’t know if he is or isn’t, he would ask the state Board of Education to remove the $10,000 pay increase (“Pay raise, expanded evaluation proposed for state schools chief,” Star-Advertiser, Dec. 7).

He would gain so much goodwill and extra points from his teachers, principals and the general public that it would be worth so much more to him than the $10,000 raise in pay.

Shep Langsner

Kaneohe

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