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Education
What Failing Schools Really Cost Oklahoma
Schools, like students, need to learn to see a tough task through until it’s complete. And if they tell us they’re having too much trouble learning, reforms like school choice could help them get up to speed.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | March 12, 2014
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Oklahoma Public Education Revenues at an All-Time High
According to the Oklahoma State Department of Education, total common education available revenues have reached an all-time high.Jonathan Small | March 12, 2014
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Education
ESAs Will Put Oklahoma Parents in Charge
Oklahoma’s public schools serve many children very well. Still, for various reasons, some students’ needs are better met in private schools, in virtual schools, or elsewhere. That is why two state lawmakers have introduced legislation to give parents debit cards, literally, to shop for the educational services that work best for their kids.Michael Carnuccio & Robert Enlow | March 12, 2014
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Brookings scholar underwhelmed by the evidence on universal pre-K
Here at home, rather than continuing to put all their eggs in Oklahoma’s ineffective government-pre-K basket, policymakers should diversify their pre-K portfolio with vouchers, tax credits, and Education Savings Accounts.Brandon Dutcher | March 11, 2014
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Oklahoma’s per-pupil available revenues at an all-time high
According to the Oklahoma State Department of Education, per-pupil available revenues have reached an all-time high.Jonathan Small | March 7, 2014
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Education
Education Savings Accounts bear watching
Given some of its left-of-center funders and its membership in a George Soros-funded network of lefty news organizations, I’ve been keeping watch on Oklahoma Watch, a relatively new nonprofit journalism organization.Brandon Dutcher | March 2, 2014
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Oklahoma public education revenues at an all-time high
According to the Oklahoma State Department of Education, total common education available revenues have reached an all-time high.Jonathan Small | February 28, 2014
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Education
The preschool non sequitur
“The passion of government pre-K advocates is evident,” Andrew J. Coulson correctly notes, “and no doubt they truly wish to help children, but their proposed solutions are based on a non sequitur.”Brandon Dutcher | February 14, 2014
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Education
‘Instead of accountability, we found leaders passing the blame’
That’s the report of Kim Jackson of Channel 8 in Tulsa, who recently set out to determine who’s responsible for the fact that nearly half of Tulsa’s public schools received an “F” in Oklahoma’s new grading system.Brandon Dutcher | February 13, 2014
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Oklahoma considers Education Savings Accounts
Two state lawmakers have introduced legislation which would create an Education Savings Account (ESA) program in Oklahoma.Brandon Dutcher | February 12, 2014