LOFT investigation finds no wrongdoing in State Board of Education’s finances | News [Video]

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT) brought forth its investigation into the financial disbursements of the State Department of Education to the Legislative Oversight Committee on Tuesday.

FOX23 sat in on Tuesday’s hearing.

Members of the Oklahoma State Board of Education (OSDE), including State Superintendent Ryan Walters, were present as LOFT presented a lengthy report to the Legislative Oversight Committee.

FOX23 told you in August when LOFT was beginning an investigation into the State Department of Education.

LOFT found no wrongdoing in the OSDE’s spending.

LOFT covered five areas in the investigation, which are Title 1 funding, maternity leave reimbursements, school resource officer funding, school inhaler funds and teacher pay raises.

No legal issues were found.

The only concerns were about communication and delays to disburse funding, but the delays still fell within federal law.

LOFT did submit the following policy change suggestions:

• Requiring the OSDE to publish an initial funding plan for new programs or legislative mandates within 90 days of the program’s start date
• Specify in …