Legislative watchdog details lack of communication in sending funds to schools

Ryan Walters wants you to know it’s not his fault.

Both the Oklahoma State Department of Education and the Oklahoma Legislature could do a better job of communicating to school districts funding timelines and the processes involved in new programs like paid maternity leave, school security grants and asthma inhalers, a legislative watchdog concluded in a report presented Tuesday.

Republican State Superintendent Walters, meanwhile, called the report a waste of time and the result of a politic...