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The cuts ordered yesterday would offset some $2.1 million of the $17.7 million difference between the Department of Education's operating budget and legislative appropriations.
There is the possibility of emergency appropriations because the department projects that $1 million more will be needed to pay water bills during the 1996-97 fiscal year.
Last year, some schools faced going dark because of a lack of funding for electricity. But an emergency legislative action came up with the money.
The Pai family says it should be allowed to remain at the West Hawaii park where ancestors have lived for 14 generations.
The Park Service has issued an eviction notice to the family; the family faces a midnight Saturday eviction deadline.
A prosecutor called the sentence, handed down yesterday by Circuit Judge Sandra Simms, lenient in light of how Norton lured students into his classroom. But a psychologist said the year in jail would likely set Norton back in his sincere efforts to end his deviant behavior.
"This is every parent's worst nightmare," said Deputy Prosecutor Barry Kemp, who asked for a five-year prison term for Norton.
Norton, 56, pleaded no contest in December to third-degree sexual assault, but didn't admit to specific offenses with the 11-year-old girl.
At a different hearing yesterday, Norton pleaded not guilty to new third-degree sexual abuse charges involving schoolgirls under age 14. An Oahu grand jury indicted Norton for allegedly putting his hand on the buttocks of two girls on five occasions from September 1993 to January 1995.
By Star-Bulletin staff
Counselors were on hand at the school to help students struggling to understand the death of Hansen "Ipo" Kaawa.
Kaawa, 18, was stabbed early Saturday during a fight following a party of some 200 youths at Nanakuli Beach Park.
The 1995 Nanakuli High graduate was planning to begin a stint in the Navy in July.
A high school vice principal said the student who was arrested told him he wanted to make a statement to police, who are looking for witnesses and the knife used in the stabbing.
Helen Caban-Freitas was arrested after attending a child custody hearing in Family Court, police said. Her bail is $4,105.
Caban-Freitas, 27, had been sought by police since May 7, when police found her children home alone in their Ewa Beach apartment.
She had been stopped by police for a traffic infraction Thursday, but wasn't arrested then.
The children, who range in age from 6 months to 9 years, remain in the custody of Child Protective Services.