Articles
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Education, Agriculture
Win-Win Solutions for Oklahoma Farmers and Needy Children
All the ideas discussed in this article are within state officials’ control. While policymakers cannot remove the risk of Oklahoma’s weather, the state can provide a more stable market that also provides a higher return to the state’s farmers by having the state’s elected officials and agencies act in concert for the benefit of all Oklahomans.Steve Anderson | September 1, 2015
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Education
Free Market Friday: Innovate, don’t mandate
Those faced with the challenges of autism deserve our cooperation and innovation – not mandates and the assault on programs that already prove effective.Michael Carnuccio | August 28, 2015
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Education
Free Market Friday: Doing more with less
While education funding in Oklahoma amounts to roughly $156,000 per classroom, taxpayers are told of underfunded schools and impoverished students who are difficult to educate. Well, earlier this month the prestigious magazine The Economist had a fascinating cover story, “The $1-a-week school,” on the rapid emergence of low-budget private schools in a number of nations, most of which can be safely classified as Third World.Michael Carnuccio | August 21, 2015
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Budget & Tax, Education
Free Market Friday: A new way of funding
Most Oklahoma taxpayers have no idea how our schools are funded. That’s not surprising. Money flows to our schools from a variety of sources, each of which may pay based on different criteria.Michael Carnuccio | August 7, 2015
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Education
Toddler technocracy
Oklahoma is one of only a tiny handful of states in which the overwhelming majority of four-year-olds attend government-run pre-Kindergarten. Oklahomans ought to ask themselves if that aligns with who they are as a people and what they think is important for young children.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | August 1, 2015
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Education
How to Make the Government Pay for the Perfect Education for Your Kid
ESAs build on the very worthwhile voucher and scholarship option by enabling families to direct every single dollar in their child’s account to multiple providers and products. And they include solid accountability measures, including providing receipts for expenditures to those managing the ESA programs in state agencies.Lindsey M. Burke | August 1, 2015
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Education
Apples to Onions: Liberal Think Tank’s Report Is Extremely Flawed
CBPP is certainly entitled to its “policy priorities”—higher taxes and increased government spending. But this report indeed “stretches the truth beyond the breaking point.”Steve Anderson | August 1, 2015
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Budget & Tax, Education
Oklahoma Budget Writers Show Commitment to Education Funding
In today’s economy, employers will only expand in states that are up to the task of accommodating them. We must have high standards to broaden our base of educated workers and ensure that our students are college and career ready to meet that challenge. By doing so, we can promote the best policy to strengthen our schools.Brian Bingman | August 1, 2015
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Education
ESAs are the next step in fulfilling Friedman’s vision
Milton Friedman, who would have turned 103 today, is best known as one of the world’s greatest economists. He received the Nobel Prize in 1974 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988. But for those of us who work in public policy, his most important works are his seminal Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose.Andrew C. Spiropoulos | July 31, 2015
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Budget & Tax, Education
Free Market Friday: Win-win for education
Some Oklahomans were disappointed this year when state lawmakers gave common education a standstill budget. They say public education is not adequately funded; a standstill means per-student spending will decrease.Michael Carnuccio | July 24, 2015