Letter: Don’t defund public schools; invest in them instead | Letters to the Editor

The best way to result in optimistic change in an important state service is to not deprive it of funding. Oklahoma continues to linger close to the underside in per pupil expenditures for public training whereas we’re first within the regional common in public funding for personal faculties.

Most states in our area present no funds for personal faculties. Turning over state funds to personal faculties the place these funds are fully outdoors of regulation and accountability invitations corruption and the misappropriation of tax {dollars}.

As a public faculty chief myself, I can not buy a lot as a paper clip with out a buy order accepted by a superior from an account often audited by the state authorities. That’s correctly.

Non-public faculties can spend your tax {dollars} with out your oversight, and within the case of personal spiritual faculties, public scrutiny of funds is barred by the First Modification.

The Epic Constitution Faculties’ studying funds, the place hundreds of thousands of tax {dollars} disappeared down a gap and into the pockets of unscrupulous profiteers, will likely be multiplied a whole lot of occasions over ought to the voucher plans presently into account by the Legislature go into legislation.