Tulsa World
By WAYNE GREENE Editorial Writer
Published: 10/10/2010 2:17 AM
Last Modified: 10/10/2010 4:00 AM
If passed, State Question 744 would vastly increase the amount of money Oklahoma spends on education.
But for every winner in state government, there's usually a loser and one of the ironies of SQ 744 is that some of its biggest losers would be education programs - or at least programs most people think of as education, but that aren't likely to be covered by the SQ 744 bonanza.
State vocational-technical programs, higher education, schools for the blind and the deaf, the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics and the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority could see their state funding drastically cut if SQ 744 passes.
State funding for early childhood education - the one school program that Oklahoma does better than any other state in the nation - might be eliminated all together.
Anyone who has watched a television ad in the past month knows that State Question 744 would raise the amount of money Oklahoma spends per-pupil on public schools. The new minimum would be the average amount spent by the six states that surround Oklahoma... FULL ARTICLE
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