enough demand. and that is bad news for states that depend on taxes from energy production, as manuel bojorquez discovered in oklahoma. >> reporter: this is inola high school. this is inola high school on mondays. no school here due to budget cuts. kent holbrook is the superintendent. my not in my worst dream did i ever figure that i would be taking my district to a four-day school week. >> reporter: he says his district outside tulsa has lost $400,000 in state funding over the last year. the choice was cut teachers or titch to four days with an extra hour. >> when i start weighing out what's going to do more damage, put 30, 35 first grade centers a class or change the hours in the uaek, the decision was actually pretty easy. >> reporter: it's the lesser of two evils. >> that's where we're at. >> reporter: lawmakers blame a 70% drop in oil and gas prices