{"id":19545,"date":"2021-06-08T18:34:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T18:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/?p=19545"},"modified":"2021-06-08T18:34:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T18:34:02","slug":"tulsa-school-board-member-publicly-opposes-414-million-bond-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/2021\/06\/08\/tulsa-school-board-member-publicly-opposes-414-million-bond-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsa School Board Member Publicly Opposes $414 million Bond Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

www.ktul.com<\/a>
\nBy Cory Smith
\n 
\nA\u00a0Tulsa Public Schools board member<\/a>\u00a0took the unusual step of voicing her stance on the district\u2019s $414 million bond proposal.
\nJennettie Marshall came out in opposition Monday night \u2013 on the eve of the public\u2019s vote.
\nBoard members are not supposed to voice a stance, and NewsChannel 8\u2019s Burt Mummolo asked Marshall if she worried about getting in trouble for her public opposition.
\n\u201cGood trouble. Good trouble,\u201d she responded. \u201cWe have to speak truth to power.\u201d
\nMarshall cited concerns with transparency, conflicts of interest, and spending accountability.
\nThe Republican Party of Tulsa County is\u00a0also urging people to vote no<\/a>\u00a0on the bond package.
\nIt’s one thing to have members of the public voice their opposition to a school bond.
\n“I think there\u2019s no accountability,” said Marsha Francine Campbell.
\n“Transparency,” Diana West.
\n“I don’t trust them,” said Paul Zelenski.
\nIt’s quite another to have that opposition joined by a school board member.
\n“As an individual, I cannot support the bond and I will not be supporting it,” said Jennettie Marshall, her reasons against echo many of the concerns voiced by demonstrators; transparency, accountability, conflicts of interest.
\n“I do not believe that it\u2019s in the best interest right now at this time until our community begins to get the answers to their questions,” she said.
\nBut also out there…
\n“I\u2019m feeling very confident that we will see a yes vote,” said Josh Roby, Chairperson of Citizens Bond Development Committee, who says he can see how bond money is being spent.
\n“I see the construction, I see the materials, I see the technology, I see the busses. I see firsthand where the dollars are spent in a way my kids interact with the school every single day,” he said.
\nBut for Marshall…
\n“I cannot support the bond in good conscience,” she said.
\nTomorrow will mark a new, albeit divergent milestone, in her long history with education.
\n“This is the first time in my voting life, and I\u2019m not a baby, that I have ever voted against a bond,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

www.ktul.com By Cory Smith   A\u00a0Tulsa Public Schools board member\u00a0took the unusual step of voicing her stance on the district\u2019s $414 million bond proposal. Jennettie Marshall came out in opposition Monday night \u2013 on the eve of the public\u2019s vote. Board members are not supposed to voice a stance, and NewsChannel 8\u2019s Burt Mummolo asked…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,124,103,106],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-19545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-education","category-featured","category-tulsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19545"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=19545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}