Letter: Leaders should take pay cuts to bolster education
Asking state departments to cut budgets to balance spending is fine. But why don’t the salaries of the governor, lieutenant governor, senators, House representatives, department heads and their bureaucracies take the same cut to lessen the impact to public education?
A good number of parents are sending their kids to private schools — which is very expensive — because they are not confident in the public education system. The leaders of Hawaii should set an example for their constituents by taking a pay decrease to help minimize cuts to public education.
Lance Miyake
Mililani
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