With state budget in crisis, many Oklahoma schools hold classes four days a week

[Blue_Adept]

NEWCASTLE, Okla. — A deepening budget crisis here has forced schools across the Sooner State to make painful decisions. Class sizes have ballooned, art and foreign-language programs have shrunk or disappeared, and with no money for new textbooks, children go without. Perhaps the most significant consequence: Students in scores of districts are now going to school just four days a week.

The shift not only upends what has long been a fundamental rhythm of life for families and communities. It also runs contrary to the push in many parts of the country to provide more time for learning — and daily reinforcement — as a key way to improve achievement, especially among poor children.

If only they could just work in the fields instead.

[nycbos]

1. This is what they wanted.

Rail against "the elites."

Who needs "book learnin'" anyway?

[bettyellen]

2. And punish women, force them out of the work force.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. You are seeing futher evidence of

ALEC/Koch Brothers Kansas type Government.