Articles
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Law & Principles
Stitt, O’Connor vow to fight Biden vaccine mandate
Gov. Kevin Stitt and Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor said the state is prepared to fight the private-business COVID vaccine mandate recently announced by President Joe Biden.Ray Carter | October 14, 2021
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Higher Education
Oklahoma colleges rank low in free-speech report
A new national report shows that Oklahoma’s top two universities trail most of their national peers when it comes to having a pro-free-speech environment on campus.Ray Carter | October 13, 2021
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Criminal Justice
Public safety, sentencing reform not incompatible
Members of the Criminal Justice Reclassification Coordination Council want Oklahomans to think the only way to reduce the state prison population and its taxpayer expense is to let predators walk free. That’s verifiable nonsense that should be rejected.Jonathan Small | October 13, 2021
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Education
OSSBA silent as counterparts reject ‘terrorism’ rhetoric
State school board associations from across the nation are publicly condemning the National School Boards Association’s call for parents who object to Critical Race Theory to be investigated under anti-terrorism laws.Ray Carter | October 13, 2021
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Budget & Tax
Tesla moving to no-income-tax Texas
Elon Musk’s announcement to move Tesla’s headquarters to Texas shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. It is yet another in a long line of firms, including Hewlett Packard, Oracle, and Musk’s own SpaceX, that have moved to Texas.Curtis Shelton | October 13, 2021
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Education
Statewide school-district testing results still not public
While school districts have had student results of state tests for months, parents are still not able to publicly view district-level comparisons—and the window for unveiling that data remains uncertain.Ray Carter | October 12, 2021
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Education
Oklahoma learning loss worse than surrounding states
Fewer than 1 in 4 Oklahoma students performed at grade level or better in English. The share performing at grade level was even lower in math.Ray Carter | October 12, 2021
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Higher Education
OU seeks ‘social justice’ math professor
The Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education at the University of Oklahoma is seeking an assistant professor in math education who “will contribute to growing interest and expertise” in “mathematics for equity and social justice.”Ray Carter | October 11, 2021
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Education
Oklahoma parents: School-board criticism is not ‘terrorism’
Oklahoma parents are pushing back against the National School Boards Association’s call for federal officials to investigate protesters at school-board meetings under anti-terrorism law.Ray Carter | October 11, 2021
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Higher Education
State colleges play role in nursing shortage, regent says
OU turns down hundreds of nursing applicants—in part because the nursing program isn’t a moneymaker for the university. Meanwhile, the woke studies proliferate.Ray Carter | October 7, 2021