Articles
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Education
One-time education funds creating long-term spending demand?
As the state spends federal COVID-bailout funding, officials at the Oklahoma State Department of Education have used millions of those one-time dollars to create new, potentially long-term jobs within the state’s education system.Ray Carter | December 17, 2021
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Education
School choice expansion clears state board
Expansion and preservation of school-choice opportunities in Oklahoma won strong approval from members of the State Board of Education at this month’s meeting.Ray Carter | December 17, 2021
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Education
Oklahoma ranks first in region for teacher pay
Oklahoma’s teacher shortage has long been blamed on low teacher pay, but a new report from the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency shows that excuse no longer holds water.Ray Carter | December 16, 2021
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Law & Principles
Biden’s policy failures pile up
According to legend, Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, responded to reports of people lacking bread by saying, “Let them eat cake.”Jonathan Small | December 15, 2021
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Law & Principles
McGirt leaves Indian victims feeling ‘defenseless’
As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma, many American Indians now find themselves largely unprotected from criminals.Ray Carter | December 15, 2021
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Higher Education
OU seminar says male-female is ‘too limiting,’ marginalizes the ‘gender fluid’
The presentation materials stated that LGBTQ+ people are negatively impacted by being socialized into an environment that only offers two positively received gender options, male or female.Staci Elder Hensley | December 14, 2021
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Budget & Tax, Good Government
Union activism may undermine Oklahoma film-subsidy program
Oklahoma lawmakers voted this year to supersize the state’s film-subsidy program, boosting the program from $8 million in annual subsidies to up to $30 million.Ray Carter | December 14, 2021
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Higher Education
BIPOC+ and LGBTQ: Oklahoma higher ed is hiring
Oklahoma’s higher education system has its own diversity-bloat problem.Mike Brake | December 13, 2021
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Education
Deace says time is now to act on school choice
Steve Deace, a longtime conservative political activist and nationally prominent talk show host, says now is the time for policymakers to increase school choice opportunities in Oklahoma.Ray Carter | December 13, 2021
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Good Government
Oklahoma’s pandemic response earns high marks
Governments’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic varied greatly from state to state. What sorts of consequences did governmental actions have?Curtis Shelton | December 10, 2021