Governor Mary Fallin and Oklahoma's public education

[Townsend]

She proved herself ready for these questions and was able to give a point by point on how she was going to reverse the course of Oklahoma's public education.

Once again she's given me confidence in the path Oklahoma's taking to make it a better place to live:

Governor Grilled Over Education Funding at Tulsa Meeting



http://kwgs.com/post/governor-grilled-over-education-funding-tulsa-meeting

Citizens at Governor Fallin's town hall meeting in Tulsa have questions and complaints about education funding in Oklahoma. Speaker-after-speaker wanted to know what the Governor planned to do about education funding in the state.

She assured the crowded that education is a top priority for her administration. She told the group, at OSU-Tulsa, her plans to grow Oklahoma's economy and the skilled labor force will bring more resources to fund education and other programs to the state.

When the questions continued, she turned to her Education Secretary Phyllis Hudeki.  Hudeki blamed part of the problem on over regulation of public education. She called on the legislature to re-write the education code for Oklahoma.

Oklahoma is near the bottom of the 50-states when it comes to education funding.

I'm just kidding.  She sucks.

[nathanm]

Interesting how regulations somehow prevent the legislature from appropriating sufficient funds.

[Townsend]

Interesting how regulations somehow prevent the legislature from appropriating sufficient funds.

Need to keep the populace uneducated and easily manipulated.  How else would they get themselves re-elected?

People might ask why it's important for someone to be more religious and more of a gun nut in order to hold public office.

[carltonplace]

Interesting how regulations somehow prevent the legislature from appropriating sufficient funds.

Since dogmatically most of them are of the same stripe they shouldn't have any partisan obstacles to overcome.

We should be in the glory days of Oklahoma unencumbered privatization and capital growth!  

[patric]

Basically she said she wanted to hire consultants to do a study on where to find new revenue, when asked how she would guarantee money meant for education would actually go there.

[Gaspar]

Basically she said she wanted to hire consultants to do a study on where to find new revenue, when asked how she would guarantee money meant for education would actually go there.

Fail!

She said consultants and study in the same sentence.  Translation="Shut the hell up!"

[guido911]

I have been dabbling in education law recently, and I can see part of the problem is the doubling and tripling up of job duties throughout the system. Lots of Chiefs, too little Warrens. 

[Townsend]

Fallin Takes Helm of National Governors Group

http://kwgs.com/post/fallin-takes-helm-national-governors-group

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is the new president of the National Governors Association.

Fallin formally adopted the role on Sunday at the organization's summer meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Fallin says her priority will be improving education and job training. She says she wants the initiatives to be lined up to the specific needs of individual state economies.

Fallin says closer relationships have to be developed between high schools and colleges and workforce training providers and employers.

The organization next meets in February in Washington, D.C.

I wonder in which state she's planning on doing that.

[Conan71]

Fallin Takes Helm of National Governors Group

http://kwgs.com/post/fallin-takes-helm-national-governors-group

I wonder in which state she's planning on doing that.

You missed a gem of an opportunity:

Fallin says closer relationships have to be developed between high schools herself and colleges and workforce training providers and employers. her body guards.

[Hoss]

You missed a gem of an opportunity:

You may have just invoked the "Wrath of the Cabbage" with that.