LAHAINA, Hawaii — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has allocated $53 million to build a temporary school to replace King Kamehameha III Elementary School in West Maui. U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, announced the federal funding in a news release Monday.
King Kamehameha III Elementary School was destroyed by the Maui wildfires in August; the money comes from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund.
The temporary school will be located in Pulelehua and serve as a space for continued instruction while a permanent school is designed and rebuilt.
“This new funding will give King Kamehameha III students a new temporary school that will help provide them with the resources they need to learn, connect with friends and heal,” said Schatz, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “As the recovery effort in Lahaina continues, we’ll keep working as hard as we can to bring home more federal resources.”
Schatz led efforts to include $16 billion in supplemental funding for FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund in the short-term government spending bill signed into law on Sept. 30.
For now, the displaced King Kamehameha III Elementary School students share a campus with Princess Nahienaena Elementary School.