
US senator from Hawaii on education department’s mass layoffs: ‘The law still matters’
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow/AP) - U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, is speaking out against the U.S. Department of Education’s plan to lay off more than 1,300 employees. “I think this is flatly impermissible under the statute,” he told Hawaii News Now. In …