Kamehameha Schools trustees today voted to approve a court settlement that would allow a 12-year-old non-Hawaiian boy from Kaua'i to remain at the Kapalama campus, a lawyer for the boy told The Advertiser.

Under the settlement, lawyers for student Brayden Mohica-Cummings will drop their lawsuit challenging the school's Hawaiians-preferred admissions policy, attorney Eric Grant said. Mohica-Cummings will be allowed to stay at Kamehameha until he graduates.

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Ezra's ruling in August that Mohica-Cummings should be allowed into the school outraged many who claimed Santos was being rewarded for falsely claiming her son was part-Hawaiian.

The ruling also was criticized by those who said admitting Mohica-Cummings would deny a spot to a truly qualified Hawaiian or part-Hawaiian student.

But Ezra made it clear he was ordering the school to admit Mohica-Cummings only because Kamehameha had accepted the boy, then rescinded the offer after discovering he had no Hawaiian blood, three weeks after public school had begun on Kaua'i.