OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — News 4 sat down with State Superintendent Lindel Fields Monday for an in-depth, 30-minute-long conversation touching on topics from how he feels about certain policies his predecessor Ryan Walters implemented, to improving the teacher morale crisis, to his plan for getting Oklahoma out of the bottom of the national education rankings.

Below you can read the transcript from News 4’s entire interview:

News 4:

“How did you how did you end up here? How did this all come to be? When did that all start?”

Fields:

“Well, as you as you know, I was an educator for 30 years. And then since retiring four years ago, I've been doing some consulting and different organizations, primarily schools. And over the about the last year or so. So I started feeling like maybe I need to

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