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Education
Oklahoma in line for $339 million in school vouchers
Read the latest Choice Remarks posting here.Brandon Dutcher | January 26, 2009
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Edmond parents getting false impression
Read the latest Choice Remarks posting here.Brandon Dutcher | January 21, 2009
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Education
What Can Brown Do for Youth?
Why not, as a matter of public policy, give Deborah Brown the chance to help even more kids to succeed?Patrick B. McGuigan | January 6, 2009
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Education
Why School Systems Cannot Lose Weight
There's plenty of evidence that state budgets are strapped these days, due to shrinking tax revenues from a faltering economy, etc. It's also clear that a number of school systems are feeling the pinch.Chester E. Finn, Jr. | January 6, 2009
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Education
North Tulsa Pastor Says Kids Need Educational Options
Dr. Donald O’Neil Tyler is the pastor of Greater Grace Temple in north Tulsa. But it was fatherhood, not his role as a pastor, which first made him a school choice advocate.Patrick B. McGuigan | December 12, 2008
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Education
Underpaid? Hey, Me Too!
Recent news stories tell us that the state’s most powerful labor union has collected signed petitions asking for more money for education.Brandon Dutcher & J. Scott Moody | December 4, 2008
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Education
Demography Is Not Destiny
Educators sometimes imply that we shouldn’t expect too much from low-income and minority students. Florida proves them wrong. Thanks to abundant school choice and systemic education reform, Hispanic 4th graders in Florida now have higher reading scores than the statewide average of all students in Oklahoma.Matthew Ladner | November 7, 2008
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Education
Hoping Against HOPE
A respected Oklahoma economist explains why the teacher union’s latest funding push would be bad for the state.Larkin Warner | November 6, 2008
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Education
'Parents Who Trust Us'
An OCPA research fellow brings home lessons from Taiwan on education policy: ‘Take the dollars and use them for education’—whether the schools are public or private.Patrick B. McGuigan | November 1, 2008
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Education
Special-Needs Students Deserve School Choice
"One size fits all" doesn't work when it comes to providing education servicesJason Murphey | October 15, 2008