Oklahoma

is the fact that the existing budget is not effectively managed. Considering the population of Oklahoma, there are way way too many school districts resulting in way too much money going to pay administrative costs versus going into the classroom. There is no amount of money that will ever make the teachers happy. You could give them 100% of the state's budget, the lottery money, and whatever money you can dig up and they will never ever be happy. As it stands, they already get over 50% of the state's budget.


If there is one way to really upset state employees it is when the state legislature contemplates merging the State Employee Retirement System with the Teacher's Retirement System. State employees don't want the teachers allowed anywhere near their retirement system because the teachers are draining their system at a faster pace then the rate that the state employee's fund is being reduced.