Education Coalition Alert – Parent Trigger Bill

This alert went out in email this morning:

The Oklahoma Education Coalition is asking all Oklahoma taxpayers, school patrons, parents and educators to OPPOSE SB 1001. 

SB 1001 is being heard TODAY in the House Appropriations and Budget Subcommittee on Education at 10:30 a.m.

 

CCOSA is joining with Oklahoma’s Education Coalition to stand united against SB 1001 for the following reasons:

• Mutual respect and collaboration between teachers, parents and districts is the key to success in our schools.  SB 1001 pits parents, teachers, principals, and school districts against each other and creates divisiveness in communities.  For example, Section 5 of SB 1001 turns the position of school principal and assistant principal into popularity contests.

• Section 3 of SB 1001 bases a parents’ ability to trigger change on a school site’s grade on Oklahoma’s A-F grading system that OU and OSU researchers have declared “unsalvageable.” This inappropriate use of the A-F system is neither wise public policy nor good for Oklahoma’s children.

• SB1001 transforms public school site(s) into privately operated charter school(s) circumventing local taxpayers’ and local school board members’ authority to operate their school(s).

• The Oklahoma Education Coalition has found no organized Oklahoma parent group in support of SB 1001. The Oklahoma Education Coalition shares the concerns of Oklahoma’s various parent associations that SB 1001 is being supported by a special interest group NOT affiliated with our state.

You can access the full text of SB 1001 here.

This urgent call to action is necessary as SB 1001 has passed the Oklahoma Senate by a vote of 30 to 12.

ALL CCOSA Members are asked to:

Please call AND email:

ALL Members of the House Appropriations and Budget Subcommittee on Common Education – ask members to oppose  SB 1001.

Lee Denney (R-Cushing)	(405) 557-7304	leedenney@okhouse.gov
Katie Henke (R-Tulsa)	(405) 557-7361	katie.henke@okhouse.gov
Ed Cannaday (D-Porum)	(405) 557-7375	ed.cannaday@okhouse.gov
Dennis Casey (R-Morrison)	(405) 557-7344	dennis.casey@okhouse.gov
Ann Coody (R-Lawton)	(405) 557-7398	anncoody@okhouse.gov
Dan Fisher (R-El Reno)	(405) 557-7311	dan.fisher@okhouse.gov
Kay Floyd (D-Oklahoma City)	(405) 557-7396	kay.floyd@okhouse.gov
Marty Quinn (R-Claremore)	(405) 557-7380	marty.quinn@okhouse.gov

Thank you for helping the Oklahoma Education Coalition STOP SB 1001!

Regards,

CCOSA Staff

Echoing the CCOSA staff, I encourage you to contact not only the committee members, but your own specific legislators today!