The governor's 21st Century School approach has the Hawaii Community Development Authority in the picture looking at what sites could be developed.

"We would still be deferring to the DOE and BOE and the state libraries from that perspective to represent the educational issues,"

"There are 256 schools. Not everyone would be involved. Maybe there would be about a dozen in the end of something like that. So it’s a mechanism, a means, a vehicle, a catalyst for the actual development," said Gov. Neil Abercrombie.

Two bold approaches to what's possible.