Kamehameha Schools lawsuits, Hawaiian stats


The Garden Island has an article giving a good background and update on the Kamehameha Schools lawsuits. It says an anonymous tip led to the decision not to admit non-Hawaiian Mohica-Cummings, prompting the boy's mother, Kalena Santos, to file a lawsuit challenging the admissions policy giving preference to Native Hawaiian students.

Colleen Wong, acting chief executive officer of Kamehameha Schools, provides some revealing statistics about the Hawaiian condition under U.S. occupation:
  • One in five Native Hawaiian high school students is held back a grade;
  • Native Hawaiian public-school children scored 11 percentage points below non-Native Hawaiians on reading tests in 2000;
  • Some 40 percent of all adults in prison in Hawai‘i identify themselves as Native Hawaiians;
  • Native Hawaiians make up 19 percent of the state population, but 39 percent of the people in homeless shelters; The poverty rate for Native Hawaiian families is more than twice that of non-Native Hawaiian families.


Posted: Mon - October 27, 2003 at 10:12 PM    
   
 
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