OCPA Impact Supports Teacher Raise Special Session

The organization working against a proposed State Question to raise sales taxes by a penny for education purposes is in favor of a special session for a teacher pay raise. OCPA Impact supports using more than $140 million to give teachers a pay raise.

“Oklahoma lawmakers should absolutely utilize available taxpayer dollars for a long-overdue pay raise for public school teachers statewide. Paired with modest reforms of TSET and of taxpayer-funded subsidies to foreign and out-of-state wind companies, lawmakers could provide a full $5,000 pay raise for every classroom teacher in the state,” said OCPA Impact CEO Dave Bond.

After the previous fiscal year’s books were reconciled, the state had $140.8 million dollars left to spend.

Bond said the move would impact the way voters will consider State Question 779, the penny sales tax for education.

“This would allow lawmakers to protect their constituents from feeling as though, when they go to the polls in November, that their only option for increasing teacher salaries and keeping good teachers in the classroom is to raise their own sales taxes to the highest of any state in the nation.”


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