OCPA attacks OEA’s bogus math: $10M is not half of $360M

OCPA comment on OEA’s bogus math OKLAHOMA CITY (July 21, 2020)—Jonathan Small, president of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, issued the following statement today in response to the Oklahoma Education Association’s recent criticism of Gov. Kevin Stitt’s “Stay in School” initiative. “The Oklahoma Education Association’s national parent, the National Education Association, is known for bizarre actions like working to give boys access to girls’ bathrooms and endorsing Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. Recently the OEA added to the bizarre by trying to give the impression that public schools are receiving only half of Oklahoma’s education-related federal COVID funding. Any suggestion to that effect is patently false. “Oklahoma received $360 million in federal funding to cover the costs of the education response to COVID-19. Of that $360 million, $160.9 million went to the state’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, which pays for COVID-related expenses at public schools, and $39.8 million went to the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund, which pays for a host of initiatives. The remainder primarily went to colleges. Read more » by Jamison Faught - July 22, 2020 at 09:48AM

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