Oklahoma's Fallin: Striking teachers like teenagers
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin compared teachers striking for more classroom funding to "a teenage kid that wants a better car" as schools throughout the state plan to close for a fourth straight day in a protest over education funding that has spread to several Republican-led states.
Fallin and other Republicans in the Oklahoma Legislature last week broke with the party orthodoxy and endorsed hundreds of millions of dollars in tax increases to fund public schools and give teachers a raise of 15 to 18 percent.