OSSM’s budget represents less than one-tenth of one percent of our state’s budget. Chopping this minuscule amount any more is not only inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but, to borrow a phrase from more agrarian times, it’s eating our seed corn. OSSM is an incubator that nurtures our state’s most precious human capital.
-Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation President Stephen Prescott, M.D, writing about the Oklahoma School of Science and Math, which has lost 22 percent of its state funding since 2009 as lawmakers are considering even more cuts (Source)