Articles
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Health Care
Medicaid-expansion benefits prove overstated
When Oklahomans voted in 2020 to expand Medicaid to cover able-bodied adults with incomes below a certain level, proponents claimed expansion would prevent people from having to forgo life-saving care and save rural hospitals in the process.Ray Carter | August 31, 2021
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Criminal Justice
Abuse of tribal police alleged in Cherokee Nation
Many Cherokees indicate their tribal police have too often been used as political enforcers rather than as law-enforcement officials.Ray Carter | August 30, 2021
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Budget & Tax
National debt threatens citizens’ futures, experts say
In the past year, federal deficit spending and associated national debt have exploded to previously unthinkable levels with ever-accelerating speed. That threatens the financial well-being of average citizens, experts warned during a recent Oklahoma City panel.Ray Carter | August 30, 2021
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Education
Education agency botches anti-racism regulations
Due to bureaucratic incompetence, Oklahoma State Department of Education regulations that enforce a state ban on teaching concepts associated with Critical Race Theory in Oklahoma schools have been withdrawn.Ray Carter | August 26, 2021
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Education
Education benefit of Oklahoma’s early-childhood programs questioned
Although Oklahoma’s early childhood education spending increased by 52 percent from 2005 to 2017, Oklahoma fourth-grade NAEP scores remained relatively flat.Ray Carter | August 24, 2021
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Education
Jenks directs parents to ‘social justice’ materials
“Social emotional learning” allows public-school teachers to address “privilege,” “discrimination,” “social justice,” and more.Ray Carter | August 23, 2021
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Education
Oklahomans strongly oppose Critical Race Theory in schools
A newly released poll shows Oklahomans strongly oppose the use of Critical Race Theory in children’s classrooms.Ray Carter | August 20, 2021
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Education
Biden ignores Taliban, targets Oklahoma parent choice
The Biden administration is targeting states that allow parents a choice in whether their children are masked at school.Ray Carter | August 20, 2021
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Higher Education
OSU offers ‘implicit bias’ training
OSU offers training to private businesses—for a price—that appears to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of a new state law.Ray Carter | August 18, 2021
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Criminal Justice
McGirt ruling freeing criminals with little Indian heritage
McGirt is now forcing the retrial and potential release of convicted criminals whose heritage is predominantly something other than American Indian.Ray Carter | August 17, 2021