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Education
Policymakers Should Fund What Works
If indeed “the goal is student achievement,” as Mr. Edelman says—if the goal is to do what works—activists and policymakers should not be clamoring for something that doesn’t work: increased government spending on the monopoly system (see page 4).Brandon Dutcher | August 5, 2013
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Education
This land is not your land
Oklahoma native Woody Guthrie “didn’t like his own country and wanted to fundamentally transform it along the lines of his heroes, Marx and Lenin.”Brandon Dutcher | April 25, 2013
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Education
School choice improves school districts’ fiscal health
Benjamin Scafidi | July 3, 2012
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Education
An Unintended Consequence Worth Praying For
[SQ 744], a proposed constitutional amendment that would require the Legislature to increase per-pupil spending to the regional average.Brandon Dutcher | February 1, 2010
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Education
Public School Results at Elite Prep-School Prices
What is the truth about per-pupil spending in Oklahoma?Steve Anderson | January 1, 2010
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Education
Better Schools Through Better Accounting
Oklahomans already do much for public education. As our state seeks to build on the economic progress it is making, we should consider what we can do to provide our children the nation's finest schools-and do it. Every dollar we spend, we must spend wisely.Brandon Dutcher & Tom Daxon | January 1, 2010
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Education
Oklahomans Travel to Pennsylvania to Explore School Choice
A group of Oklahomans interested in exploring expansive examples of school choice traveled to Philadelphia November 16 and 17. They visited Spruce Hill Christian School, talked with legislators like black Democrat state Sen. Anthony Williams of Philadelphia, and participated in long exchanges with people who have made inner-city education reform a reality.Patrick B. McGuigan | January 1, 2010
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Education
Three Reasons Oklahoma Needs School Choice
In a recent article, I offered a modest proposal to enhance school choice in Oklahoma. I proposed that Oklahoma start funding a $3,000 tuition scholarship for every K-12 student who enrolls in an accredited Oklahoma private school. Such a proposal, I argued, would provide parents with more freedom, more flexibility, and more choices in finding the school that best fits their children's needs.Mickey Hepner | December 7, 2009
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Budget & Tax, Education
Why Are Taxpayers Funding the Retirement of OEA Employees?
The Oklahoma Education Association (OEA) is the most powerful labor union in Oklahoma. Their representatives, including lobbyists who roam the halls of the state capitol building, often are schoolteachers who have left the classroom in order to become OEA employees.Steve Anderson | October 5, 2009
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Education
Leading Analysts Back School Choice for Special Needs, Early Childhood
In recent months, Oklahoma has become a hotbed for substantive discussion of educational policy.Patrick B. McGuigan | September 1, 2009