The Oklahoma Parent Teacher Association is joining the chorus of calls for state Superintendent Janet Barresi to resign from office immediately.
Barresi has “continued to erode the relationship between the state Department of Education and the school boards, administrators, teachers and parents of Oklahoma public schools,” Oklahoma PTA President Jeffery Corbett said in a statement Friday.
The call comes a day after Lee Baxter, a member of the Oklahoma State Board of Education, demanded at the end of the board’s regular meeting that Barresi step down immediately rather than wait until her term is over in January.
