StateImpact Oklahoma
StateImpact Oklahoma
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Five years after the Oklahoma Teacher Walkout, the stakes are higher than ever
4 minutes Posted Apr 6, 2023 at 10:00 am.
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Even though funding measures advocated for by 2018 Oklahoma Teacher Walkout participants were stymied largely by Republican lawmakers, Oklahoma’s GOP is now authoring record-level education funding measures that include teacher raises, along with a slew of labor rights bills for educators. But the funding bills are far from a done deal — in fact, due to a disagreement in how those bills should operate, there could be no deal at all.