Articles
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Higher Education
In free-speech report, OU pretends lawsuit doesn’t exist
When Oklahoma legislators approved a 2019 law protecting college students’ free-speech rights, they included a requirement for state colleges to publicly post an annual report that includes “a description of any barriers to or incidents of disruption of free expression occurring on campus.”Ray Carter | January 11, 2022
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Law & Principles
U.S. Supreme Court allows McGirt limit to stand
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition for certiorari, leaving in place an Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals’ decision declaring the high court’s McGirt ruling will not be applied retroactively.Ray Carter | January 11, 2022
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Budget & Tax, Education
Public schools carry over more than $1 billion
Oklahoma public schools carried over more than $1 billion at the end of the 2021 state budget year, marking an increase of more than 50 percent in school savings over the past five years.Ray Carter | January 10, 2022
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Law & Principles
Biden administration argues it can mandate numerous vaccines
Defending its effort to make COVID-19 vaccination, or routine testing, a condition of private-sector employment, the Biden administration told the U.S. Supreme Court that federal law allows the executive branch to unilaterally mandate vaccinations through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration—and said the administration has the authority to require additional vaccinations as well.Ray Carter | January 7, 2022
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Higher Education
Despite vaccines, OSU brings back masks
Even with COVID-19 vaccines readily available, Oklahoma State University intends to require masking in classrooms under certain circumstances.Maddison Farris | January 7, 2022
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Education
Edmond Public Schools to appeal judge’s ruling
Edmond Public Schools plans to appeal a judge’s order that prevents the district from quarantining healthy children as part of its response to COVID-19, even though the judge found that quarantine policy was “irrational,” provided “no benefit” in reducing COVID spread, and imposed “tremendous harm” on students.Ray Carter | January 6, 2022
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Education
OSSBA offers schools lesson that bashes racial equality
A digital resources library offered to Oklahoma schools by the Oklahoma State School Boards Association (OSSBA) includes a “Racial Equity and Justice Initiative Challenge to Change Series” for students as young as pre-K that denounces the concept of racial equality and suggests only white individuals can be racist.Ray Carter | January 5, 2022
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Law & Principles
McGirt harming Oklahoma nationally
Some tribal leaders argue the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma, which found a reservation was never disestablished in Oklahoma and that state officials therefore cannot prosecute many crimes involving American Indian victims or criminals, is a boon to the state.Jonathan Small | January 5, 2022
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Education
Seven reasons to let parents choose
Access to a good education is something that every Oklahoma student should enjoy, not just a select few.Brandon Dutcher | January 5, 2022
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Education
Gramsci, not grammar: Even the teaching of English has gone woke
The education and professional development of Oklahoma’s English teachers have been corrupted by radical politics.David Randall, Ph.D. | January 5, 2022