Education Cuts Prompt Revolt, Despair in Oklahoma

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Education Cuts Prompt Revolt, Despair in Oklahoma

By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
TULSA, Okla. — May 5, 2016, 1:13 PM ET

Oklahoma is accustomed to being at the back of the class in funding for public education: It ranks 48th among the 50 states plus the District of Columbia in teacher pay and 49th in spending per student.

But even many long-suffering Oklahoma educators and parents are revolting over the latest round of proposed cuts amid the state's worst-ever budget crisis.

A crash in the oil and natural gas industry, the state's economic lifeblood, reduced tax revenue. At the same time, Republicans, who hold every elected statewide office, charged ahead with income tax cuts that drain another $135 million in revenue each year.

"We cut taxes — that's great, but at whose expense right now? It's at the expense of my boys," said single mother Angela Little, whose twin sons Cannon and Boston are fourth graders at West Field Elementary in Edmond.

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[EV_Ares]

1. Actually, you could just exchange Oklahoma & put in Kansas & the rest of that could still read the

same. Kansas is in the same predicament, has done basically the same thing in the cutting of taxes for the rich, small business & the farmers which really are the corporate farmers. Education is suffering, children's programs & any & everything for the poor.

I really do hope that people are seeing what these republican governors are doing. Louisiana has after some years elected a Dem for Governor.