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Idea to send:	Topic Education Content I want to see Oklahoma set the pace for education not only in the United States, but around the world. Everyone says they support education and teachers and the bureacracy that runs education, but to be educationally ranked 47th among the 50 states & for the US to be 17th among industrialized nations is pathetic. We draw so many international students in for college, but are we really preparing Oklahoma's secondary school students to succeed in a global economy? The salvation of education was supposed to be the lottery, and although i can not dispute the gross dollars that the lottery & casino gaming has removed from Oklahomans' pockets even Scott Meachum & Mary Fallin had great difficulty in explaining to me when I asked them for a solid dollar amount that went to the schools from the lottery. After discussing the "Formula" that creates the breakdown for education they both simply said, "we don't know how much money goes to schools from the lottery." All that to add some validity to what you'll immediately dismiss as a terrible idea, but it's my idea non-the-less...if we implemented it fully it would dramatically change education for the better in Oklahoma...and if it doesn't work we can go back to the current program, which also doesn't work. My idea is to allow parents the opportunity to request funds for school be made payable to private schools, classical christian schools, or home-school associations (not directly to parents) instead of to the local public schools. Few in the state education administration arena would support this move, but then again...they've played a part in our current ranking.