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Gender Attitudes, Support for Teachers’ Strikes, and Legislative Elections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2020

Ana Bracic
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
Mackenzie Israel-Trummel
Affiliation:
College of William & Mary
Sarina Rhinehart
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma
Allyson F. Shortle
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma

Extract

In the past 25 years, education funding in Oklahoma has stagnated. In some schools, students learn about American politics from tattered textbooks in which George W. Bush is listed as the current president (Hendry and Pasquantonio 2018). Across the board, teachers are grossly underpaid, yet many are compelled to buy school supplies with their own funds (Felder 2018a). Moreover, in one out of five schools, students come to class only four days a week (Carlson 2018). After the state legislature failed to pass a funding package to sufficiently increase spending on schools and salaries in early 2018, teachers across Oklahoma walked out on their jobs to protest at the Capitol for nine days. In addition to sharing their grievances, the hundreds of protesting educators had something else in common: many were women.

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Symposium: State Legislative Elections of 2018
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© American Political Science Association 2020

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