Former Gov. Linda Lingle says she regrets trusting the Hawaii State Board of Education to implement furloughs on non-instructional days. She made the following statement on Sunrise at Hawaii News Now this morning:

Well especially with the furloughs, I wish I had not taken the word of the BOE that they would implement a furlough on non-instructional days. And that was a promise they made to me, and so I went along with them. And when it came out that the schedule was on instructional days, my entire administration was shocked by that. I would not have believed them based on what ended up happening. So when I look back, I think it was a mistake to take their word at that time.