Audit finds special interest groups gave Oklahoma private schools first-dibs on federal relief money while rejecting poor kids

State Superintendent Ryan Walters, then the head of a school reform group, guided shadowy efforts to distribute pandemic funds, leading to millions in questionable spending. Millions in federal relief money meant to help Oklahoma students during the pandemic was misspent at the hand of special special interest groups who gave preferential treatment to private schoolers while hundreds of needy…