Honolulu ? Hawaii public school teachers signed off on first-in-the-nation statewide random drug testing in exchange for pay raises, but now the state claims the educators are trying to take the money and run.

Since the teachers’ union approved the pact nearly two years ago, they’ve accepted the 11 percent boost in pay while fighting the random tests as an illegal violation of their privacy rights. No teacher has been tested.

The showdown over teacher drug testing arose from the highly publicized arrests of six state Education Department employees in unrelated drug cases over a six-month period.

None of the cases involved drug use in the classroom, and the teachers union argues there are only a few bad apples among the 13,000 teachers in the state’s single public school district.

The union says it didn’t consent to truly random drug testing in the contract, which says the parties “agree to negotiate reasonable suspicion and random drug and alcohol testing procedures.”