Articles
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Education
Testing results show need to fund students, not systems
Previously, only about one-third of students performed at grade level in key subjects. Today, things are even worse.Jonathan Small | October 20, 2021
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Education
Activist groups file lawsuit against HB 1775
A coalition of activist groups has filed a federal lawsuit challenging an Oklahoma state law that prohibits public schools from teaching children that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex.”Ray Carter | October 20, 2021
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Education
School diversity officers associated with worse achievement
Nationwide, K-12 schools are hiring chief diversity officers to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals, typically in the name of reducing racial achievement gaps.Ray Carter | October 19, 2021
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Higher Education
‘Race’ and ‘indigeneity’: Oklahoma higher ed is hiring
Can anyone get hired in Norman who is not a committed left-winger?Mike Brake | October 19, 2021
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Education
O’Connor sides with Edmond parents in quarantine dispute
Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor has sided with parents in a legal dispute over Edmond Public Schools’ policy of requiring healthy, unvaccinated students to be quarantined when similarly situated vaccinated students are not.Ray Carter | October 18, 2021
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Law & Principles
Stitt, O’Connor vow to fight Biden vaccine mandate
Gov. Kevin Stitt and Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor said the state is prepared to fight the private-business COVID vaccine mandate recently announced by President Joe Biden.Ray Carter | October 14, 2021
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Higher Education
Oklahoma colleges rank low in free-speech report
A new national report shows that Oklahoma’s top two universities trail most of their national peers when it comes to having a pro-free-speech environment on campus.Ray Carter | October 13, 2021
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Criminal Justice
Public safety, sentencing reform not incompatible
Members of the Criminal Justice Reclassification Coordination Council want Oklahomans to think the only way to reduce the state prison population and its taxpayer expense is to let predators walk free. That’s verifiable nonsense that should be rejected.Jonathan Small | October 13, 2021
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Education
OSSBA silent as counterparts reject ‘terrorism’ rhetoric
State school board associations from across the nation are publicly condemning the National School Boards Association’s call for parents who object to Critical Race Theory to be investigated under anti-terrorism laws.Ray Carter | October 13, 2021
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Budget & Tax
Tesla moving to no-income-tax Texas
Elon Musk’s announcement to move Tesla’s headquarters to Texas shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. It is yet another in a long line of firms, including Hewlett Packard, Oracle, and Musk’s own SpaceX, that have moved to Texas.Curtis Shelton | October 13, 2021