Articles
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Education
Hofmeister praised by Biden administration
Joy Hofmeister is being praised by a top official in the Biden administration for her opposition to an Oklahoma law that allows parents to determine if their children are masked while at school.Ray Carter | September 7, 2021
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Culture & the Family
Court finds postage is not a poll tax on absentee voters
Judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit have ruled that paying postage to mail in an absentee ballot is not an unconstitutional poll tax.Ray Carter | September 2, 2021
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Education, Culture & the Family
Edmond middle-school students asked for preferred pronouns
As part of the start-of-school process in Edmond Public Schools, some middle-school students were asked to provide their preferred pronouns with options including “they/them.”Ray Carter | September 2, 2021
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Criminal Justice
Expungement reform touted as way to reduce crime
If the Oklahoma government allows automatic expungement of certain lower-level criminal convictions, it will help people who have served their sentences to again become productive members of society and make them less likely to reoffend, a panel of experts told state lawmakers during an interim study.Ray Carter | August 31, 2021
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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