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Education
Free Market Friday: For pre-K choices
Next week in downtown Oklahoma City, several organizations are hosting a statewide conference on early-childhood issues.Jonathan Small | October 21, 2016
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Education
With a Boost from a School Choice Program, Life-Changing School Coming to Oklahoma
One of the nation’s most effective college prep and work experience programs will come to Oklahoma in one year, thanks to existing state policy providing a steady model for financing. Students from economically challenged backgrounds will be able to access the high-quality high school education model and job program beginning in fall 2017.Patrick B. McGuigan | October 14, 2016
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Education
Survey: Most Oklahomans See Educational Choice as a Moral Right
Should parents be allowed to use the tax dollars intended for the education of their child to subsidize the cost of an education at a privately operated school? Most Oklahoma voters say yes, according to a new SoonerPoll Quarterly Poll, with regular church attenders and evangelicals expressing even stronger support.Jay Chilton | October 11, 2016
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Education
School choice improves public education
School choice is the best-researched education issue, possibly the best-researched policy issue of any kind. And guess what? Choice is actually the best-proven method—by far—of improving public schools. If you’re serious about helping public schools, you should be serious about school choice.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | October 1, 2016
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Education
Some School Districts Resistant to Posting Credit Card Statements Online
One portion of an Oklahoma law dealing with financial disclosure requires local school districts to publish credit card statements online. And though some districts have expressed a willingness to comply with the law, other districts refuse to post the information on their websites.Jay Chilton | September 29, 2016
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Education
School Choice Makes Teachers Free to Teach
There has been a lot of talk lately about politicians interfering in classrooms, but this isn’t actually a new problem. Politicians have been interfering with good teaching ever since we created a government monopoly on schools—because that’s what a government monopoly does.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | September 1, 2016
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Education
School Districts Express Willingness to Comply with Law
Overwhelming majorities of public school websites reviewed by OCPA’s Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) during a recent analysis were out of compliance with the state’s School District Transparency Act.Jay Chilton | August 31, 2016
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Education
In Districts with Recent Misconduct, Transparency Compliance Is Mixed
Most Oklahoma school districts are not in compliance with the statutory requirement to publish credit-card statements on the school district’s website—including some districts with recent high-profile instances of financial misconduct.Jay Chilton | August 29, 2016
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Education
Free Market Friday: The $1.5 million press box
It’s back-to-school time, which means that budget-conscious parents – spending money on school clothes, backpacks, and more – are setting priorities. Education officials should do the same.Jonathan Small | August 26, 2016
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Education
School Districts Fail to Comply With Transparency Law
One portion of an Oklahoma law dealing with financial disclosure requires Oklahoma school districts to publish district credit card statements for public review on the district’s website. Though some schools are in full compliance, a sampling of 10 percent of the school district websites suggests that the overwhelming majority are not.Jay Chilton | August 23, 2016