OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (KSWO) - The Oklahoma State Department of Education recommended that schools not buy any textbooks because of lack of state funding.
The department said lawmakers failed to appropriate funding for textbooks during the fiscal year beginning July 1st.
State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister spoke out saying students will be forced to use "outdated and tattered school books held together by duct tape."
The 13-member state textbook committee is expected to consider the recommendation of delaying textbook selection by a year at a special meeting later this month.
Last fiscal year, $33 million was allocated for textbooks.
There are several states where the State Supreme Court has ruled that the Legislature was remiss in funding schools. It is collusion, to bring down the education system and bring it under a "better steward" the US Federal Government. Just as the FedGov is salivating over nationalizing the police force, they want to add education to the stable over which they have total control.