OK Senate: Loveless To Lead Study On Increasing Classroom Costs By Reducing Overhead

Immediate Release: November 10, 2014

Study to explore more money for classrooms by reducing overhead costs

The Oklahoma State Senate Education Subcommittee on Appropriations will hold an interim study Wednesday, Nov. 12, to examine options to reduce administrative spending in small school districts to provide more money for classrooms.

The meeting is set for 9:30 a.m. at the State Capitol in Room 419-C.

Sen. Kyle Loveless authored legislation resulting in the study. Loveless said streamlining spending on human resources, information technology and other administrative costs in more than 200 school districts with 250 or fewer students could produce more than $39 million in savings that could be used to address a teacher shortage.

“When we have 531 school districts, that is too much overhead,” Loveless said. “Other states around us do not, and if we want the regional average on teacher pay, a way to get there would be getting rid of some of the duplication and waste in the administrative budgets of the districts all across our state. We can accomplish this without closing a single school and putting more money in our teachers’ pockets.”

Follow this link to download the meeting notice.

For more information, contact: Sen. Kyle Loveless, 405-521-5618.

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