State Superintendent Walter says no more illegal kids in school!

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Applies equally to their "dictators, tyrants, and despots".
And the reason they've flocked here more in the last decade than have in the previous hundred years.
You don't know and don't want to know, or know and won't say.
Interesting.
Especially for a "constitution cowboy".

I do know and said it. It also boils down to money.

Woody

 

[turkeyrun]

And they do. What's the complaint? Unfortunately no one read the fine print. 39.5 percent goes to colleges (institutes of higher education). 45 percent is doled out to the roughly 500 school districts in the rest of the state.

the Oklahoman:
Oklahoma’s lottery revenue has reached new highs after a decision by lawmakers to increase the prize amounts offered.

The Oklahoma Lottery Commission recorded an all-time high of about $380.5 million in sales revenue, and about $87.6 million was reinvested in education in fiscal year 2023.

It is projected to have its second-best year in its history in budget year 2024 with $354.6 million in sales and $87.5 million for education. The fiscal year ended June 30, but external auditors are still completing records.

Jay Finks, executive director of the commission, said the lottery is run on a net-profit model.

Better start looking at the school board for your money. Those administrators are paid outrageously for the little work they do.

EXACTLY

The issue isn't $$$$$. It is mismanagement and waste. With a total lack of oversite, accountability or consequences.

 

[turkeyrun]

I have posted this before and made a lot of people around town very mad.

We live in Cotton County, the POOREST county in Okla. The County has 3 school districts.
#1 Superintendent - salary $102k
4 Principals, 2 vice-principals
2024 graduating class of 42

#2 Superintendent - salary $94k
3 Pricipals, 3 vice-principals
2024 graduating class of 12

#3 Superintendent- salary $88k
3 Principal, 3 vice-principals
2024 graduating class of 8

Lawton has 3 High Schools
1 Superintendent - salary of $148k
2024 graduated 2700+ students.

Convince me that we don't have WASTE.

 

[D.Borders]

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips.
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Keep your trash.

 

[BillM]

I have posted this before and made a lot of people around town very mad.

We live in Cotton County, the POOREST county in Okla. The County has 3 school districts.
#1 Superintendent - salary $102k
4 Principals, 2 vice-principals
2024 graduating class of 42

#2 Superintendent - salary $94k
3 Pricipals, 3 vice-principals
2024 graduating class of 12

#3 Superintendent- salary $88k
3 Principal, 3 vice-principals
2024 graduating class of 8

Lawton has 3 High Schools
1 Superintendent - salary of $148k
2024 graduated 2700+ students.

Convince me that we don't have WASTE.

When I was teaching US Government at MWC HS for my teaching internship, we talked about, that after we talked about them calculating their person shares of the National Debt. Then, 2006, it was about $30k apiece, IIRC. Upwards of a quarter million dollars each now. That's for every person, not every tax payer.