Quote of the Day | August 22, 2018

“We are now experiencing the full weight of a crisis we have been warning of for the past three years. It is no surprise, and our children have paid the price of years of inaction which cannot be immediately reversed.”

-State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister, speaking about a new surge of emergency teacher certification requests from districts desperate to fill classroom vacancies [Tulsa World]

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gene Perry worked for OK Policy from 2011 to 2019. He is a native Oklahoman and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.A. in history and an M.A. in journalism.

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