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Sand Springs superintendent among critics of school voucher bills

From the Sand Springs Leader education stories series

• Sharon Bishop-Baldwin
• Feb 27, 2022
• Feb 27, 2022 Updated Jul 26, 2023
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The Oklahoma Empowerment Act would allow taxpayer funding to follow a student from a public school to a private school or home school. A teacher makes a sign during a rally for education funding at the Oklahoma Capitol on Feb. 12, 2018. 

MIKE SIMONS, Tulsa World file

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Two similar measures in the Oklahoma Senate are purported by their author to be pro-student, but educators, including Sand Springs Superintendent Sherry Durkee, say the bills could cause real harm to public schools and the students who are succeeding in them.

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The Oklahoma Empowerment Act would allow taxpayer funding to follow a student from a public school to a private school or home school. A teacher makes a sign during a rally for education funding at the Oklahoma Capitol on Feb. 12, 2018. 

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