After more than a year, and multimillion dollar campaigns that saturated yards, medians and televisions, voters defeated State Question 744.
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BY MEGAN ROLLAND
Published: November 2, 2010
Modified: November 3, 2010 at 9:56 am
The $830 million education funding amendment, State Question 744, failed to get more than 20 percent of voter approval Tuesday night.
Oklahomans have been bombarded with the message for the past two years that the state is nearly last, 49th, in what it spends per student on prekindergarten through 12th-grade education.
“It's a win, win for education,” said Heather Sparks, teacher of the year in 2009, said of the fact that State Question 744 lost. “We have let the public know, really put the giant spotlight on the fact that we are in the bottom five every year. We can do better if we have more resources. It needs to be a priority in our state.”
Sparks, who teaches at Taft Middle School, said the lack of resources classrooms face – particularly when it comes to technology – is astounding... FULL ARTICLE
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