Muskogee Public Schools staff and band got together one day and put this wonderful video all together to get ready for the 2010-2011 school year! Good Job, Roughers! Vote YES on State Question 744 to require Oklahoma to boost education spending! Watch the video below!
State Question 744 will basically require that Oklahoma spend at least the same average amount for K-12 schools as surrounding states:
STATE QUESTION NO. 744
LEGISLATIVE REFERENDUM NO. 391
The measure repeals a section of the State Constitution. The repealed section required the Legislature annually to spend $42.00 for each common school student. Common schools offer pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.
The measure also adds a new Article to the Constitution. It sets a minimum average amount the State must annually spend on common schools. It requires the State to spend annually, no less than the average amount spent on each student by the surrounding states. Those surrounding states are Missouri, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Colorado and New Mexico. When the average amount spent by surrounding states declines, Oklahoma must spend the amount it spent the year before.
The measure deals with money spent on day-to-day operations of the schools and school districts. This includes spending on instructions, support services and non-instruction services. The measure does not deal with money spent to pay debt, on buildings or on other capital needs.
The measure requires that increased spending begin in the first fiscal year after its passage. It requires that the surrounding state average be met in the third fiscal year after passage.
The measure does not raise taxes, nor does it provide new funding for the new spending requirements.
This can easily be funded if the state will stop raiding the education fund and replacing it with lottery funds as it was supposed to. Right now, the state is replacing funds with lottery funds instead of supplementing them. See: Oklahoma Education Lottery – the big lie.
Now, the video!
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