Voters to decide on education funding and Republican backed laws
The 11 state questions on Tuesday's ballot cover everything from education funding and term limits to Sharia Law and opting out of federal health care reform.
Of the 11 state questions voters will consider on Tuesday, the behemoth is State Question 744 that calls for at least $830 million more to be spent on common education in Oklahoma over the next three years.
The constitutional amendment was put on the ballot by more than 238,000 voter signatures collected with the support of the Oklahoma Education Association, a state teachers' union.
It would mandate that Oklahoma spend the same per student as the average expenditure in surrounding states. Oklahoma currently ranks 49th in the nation on per-pupil spending.
Opponents of the measure say that because there is no funding source identified, the money will have to come out of the general revenue budget and require devastating cuts to other state agencies including higher education, the Department of Human Services and others.
The bill does not specify where the money will come from, or how it will be allocated
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