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June 16, 1967: State officials become very upset when a supposedly confidential report is released to the local press. The report details the failure of the still relatively new (the state was formed in 1959) Education Department to provide a decent education to Hawaii students. The Western Association of Schools and Colleges, which ranks American High Schools, finds that not a single high school in Hawaii ranks high. On the association’s website today, 40 years after that first dismal report, you can see that while all schools are certainly accredited in Hawaii, no public school maintains a high ranking. Not exactly consistency one can brag about.