Tulsa World
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
Published: 11/2/20108:25 PM
Last Modified: 11/2/20109:51 PM
Oklahoma voters on Tuesday rejected State Question 744, the hotly debated initiative petition to mandate more funding for public schools.
With about half of the state's precincts reporting, the measure was failing, 19 percent to 80 percent.
“The coalition which banded together to defeat this measure is celebrating not only saving Oklahoma’s economy from havoc, but also from outside interest groups which made the fight one of the more costly I’ve seen,” said Mike Neal, president and CEO of the Tulsa Metro Chamber.
The chamber was one of more than 100 members of the One Oklahoma Coalition, which led the campaign to defeat SQ744.
The measure would have mandated an increase in per-pupil funding equivalent to the average funding in Oklahoma’s surrounding states. The increase would have cost $800 million to $1.7 billion per year... FULL ARTICLE
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