Ryan Langston-Walters exposes latest disgruntled liar within Oklahoma Dept of Education…

Late last week, Terri Grissom – a professional grant writer who recently resigned from the Oklahoma State of Education – revealed to some local newspapers and lawmakers that Ryan Langston-Walters and the Oklahoma Department of Education have essentially stopped applying for competitive federal grants. 

I guess this was newsworthy because A) the state uses these grants to fund various education programs, B) Ryan had recently assured lawmakers that he was still applying for federal grants, and C) Ryan Langston-Walters would never ever lie.

Here are details via The Tulsa World:

A longtime grant writer has shared with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle claims that State Superintendent Ryan Walters lied to them at a recent public hearing and concerns that current and future federal grant funding for Oklahoma public school students is in jeopardy…

She changed her mind about speaking out on May 1, when she tuned in to watch Walters engage in a Q-and-A with the House Appropriations and Budget Subcommittee on Education.

“I watched the hearing last week. He lied,” said Grissom, who has worked as a grant writer for 36 years and as a teacher for 11 years before that. “I’m not going to speak about something I don’t know about. I’m only going to speak about statements that I know are 100% untrue. And he spoke many untruths about the status of grants in the agency.”

Even though Ryan Langston-Walters pledged on the campaign trail that he would “refuse all federal education funding,” and not applying for federal grants seems like a great way to make that happen, his right-hand man Matt Langston – the Texas resident who helps set and enact Oklahoma education policy from the wrong side of the Red River – quickly hopped on Twitter to set the record straight…