Hofmeister Launches Campaign For Superintendent
Joy Hofmeister enters state superintendent’s race
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
Tulsan Joy Hofmeister delivered a scathing rebuke of State Superintendent Janet Barresi in a Monday morning announcement of her own candidacy for the statewide office.
Hofmeister, the owner of a local franchise of Kumon after-school math and reading programs and a former public schoolteacher, called Barresi’s “one-size-fits-all” and “cookie-cutter” approach to education reform harmful to kids and likened her centralization of power over the state’s public schools to socialism.
“Janet Barresi’s educational leadership is a disaster. And now that she faces re-election, she is trying to reverse herself or spin her way out of the problems she created,” Hofmeister said. “The Barresi reign of terror has been nothing short of bullying and a failure at every single turn.
“Our schools have been left without proper service. Our teachers have been demoralized, and our kids are the victims.”