An anti-tax group said it will not seek a second veto referendum on new taxes to fund teacher pay raises.
The first day of July marked the beginning of a tax increase on gas and cigarettes. In March, Governor Mary Fallin signed the $424 million tax plan just ahead of the teacher walkout.
The effort to roll back a tax increase is turned back at the state supreme court. The court ruled the veto referendum was not properly written and will not go to the ballot but the group behind it promises to keep trying.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court says an initiative petition that would overturn a package of tax hikes for funding teacher pay raises and public schools is invalid.
The group behind the effort to overturn the tax increase to fund teacher pay raises says they're on track to get the signatures they need. They're also disputing the notion the pay raises would be impacted at all.
Education groups are calling for a boycott of businesses that are helping collect signatures to stop the upcoming tax increase for teacher pay raises.
In November, there could be a vote to eliminate tax increases tied to teacher pay raises. Before that vote can happen, the group trying to get it on the ballot has to gather 41,000 signatures.
A group representing Oklahoma teachers is asking the state's highest court to stop an effort to overturn a tax-hike package to fund teacher pay raises the Legislature approved amid a national uprising of educators seeking more classroom money.
A legislative victory for teachers could be reversed. A taxpayer group plans to try to repeal it through a referendum.
A Muskogee state senator is warning teachers all of the work they're doing could be for nothing if a tax repeal is on the ballot in November.
