Articles
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Education
As others exit, OSSBA maintains NSBA ties
A majority of state school boards associations have publicly distanced themselves from the National School Boards Association after the national group compared parents to terrorists, and 17 state associations have withdrawn from the NSBA.Ray Carter | December 21, 2021
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Higher Education
Oklahoma professors oppose ‘woke’ math effort
Professors and professionals across the country, including some in Oklahoma, have urged K-12 schools to preserve higher-level math courses, which are now under attack because some racial minorities are underrepresented.Ray Carter | December 20, 2021
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Education
One-time education funds creating long-term spending demand?
As the state spends federal COVID-bailout funding, officials at the Oklahoma State Department of Education have used millions of those one-time dollars to create new, potentially long-term jobs within the state’s education system.Ray Carter | December 17, 2021
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Education
School choice expansion clears state board
Expansion and preservation of school-choice opportunities in Oklahoma won strong approval from members of the State Board of Education at this month’s meeting.Ray Carter | December 17, 2021
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Education
Oklahoma ranks first in region for teacher pay
Oklahoma’s teacher shortage has long been blamed on low teacher pay, but a new report from the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency shows that excuse no longer holds water.Ray Carter | December 16, 2021
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Law & Principles
McGirt leaves Indian victims feeling ‘defenseless’
As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma, many American Indians now find themselves largely unprotected from criminals.Ray Carter | December 15, 2021
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Higher Education
OU seminar says male-female is ‘too limiting,’ marginalizes the ‘gender fluid’
The presentation materials stated that LGBTQ+ people are negatively impacted by being socialized into an environment that only offers two positively received gender options, male or female.Staci Elder Hensley | December 14, 2021
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Budget & Tax, Good Government
Union activism may undermine Oklahoma film-subsidy program
Oklahoma lawmakers voted this year to supersize the state’s film-subsidy program, boosting the program from $8 million in annual subsidies to up to $30 million.Ray Carter | December 14, 2021
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Education
Deace says time is now to act on school choice
Steve Deace, a longtime conservative political activist and nationally prominent talk show host, says now is the time for policymakers to increase school choice opportunities in Oklahoma.Ray Carter | December 13, 2021
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Education
NEA/OEA admits anti-CRT law does not ban teaching history
When lawmakers passed House Bill 1775, which bans public schools from teaching certain concepts broadly associated with Critical Race Theory, critics claimed the law makes it illegal to educate children about some of history’s darker racial chapters.Ray Carter | December 9, 2021