You can't be too cynical but this is being explained as someone pushing a wrong button during a shift change.
Sorry, but there should be more checks and balances to keep that from happening. A lot of people here really panicked.
Like California, Hawaii is now a one-party rule state. The dems run virtually everything, when something goes wrong it is due to their incompetence.
Republican curriculum/criteria: reading, writing, arithmetic. Science, engineering.
Democrat curriculum/criteria: feelings, diversity, emotions, pseudo-science