OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR ) — In a filing this week, two former employees at the Oklahoma State Department of Education want a judge to get Superintendent Ryan Walters to answer their questions.
“My clients would like to get a solution going. That’s what they’ve been striving for and it’s frustrating,” said Mark Hammons of Hammons, Hurst & Associates.
Hammons represents the two former employees, Cheryl McGee and Matthew Colwell. They listed Superintendent Walters and Chief Policy Advisor Matt Langston in their lawsuits.
McGee was fired in 2023; she was the executive director of school-based mental health. In her lawsuit, she claims that she was fired after being accused of sharing an alleged phishing email from higher-ups, among other reasons.
Colwell was the OSDE School Success Program Manager in the Division of Federal Programs.
“He was legitimately asking if this is legal,” said Hammons.