School land bill moves forward in Hawaii Senate

Published March 19, 2013 2:33am ET



HONOLULU (AP) — The Senate Education Committee voted Monday to move forward a bill that would allow the state to develop public school lands through private-public partnerships.

Gov. Neil Abercrombie is pushing for the so-called 21st Century Schools initiative to raise money for repairing and maintaining Hawaii’s schools, which are an average of 65 years old.

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