Articles
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Education
Activists concede some schools bank on ‘ghost student’ funds
A new campaign concedes that some Oklahoma school districts’ budgets are substantially based on payments for “ghost students” who do not exist in those districts.Ray Carter | March 22, 2021
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Education
Prioritizing free speech for teachers
How important is the right of free speech to you? To some, but fortunately not all, lawmakers, it’s not even worth a piece of paper and an email.Jonathan Small | March 19, 2021
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Education
Report shows open transfer alone not enough
This year both chambers of the Oklahoma Legislature have approved bills that would ease the “open transfer” process.Ray Carter | March 18, 2021
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Education
Lawmakers reinforce ‘politician’ stereotypes
School shutdowns over the past year have prompted parents across the state to become involved in the political process to improve their children’s education system.Ray Carter | March 17, 2021
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Higher Education
Ombudsman could protect science from the ‘social justice’ revolution
The Oklahoma legislature should reform public universities as a whole.David Randall, Ph.D. | March 16, 2021
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Budget & Tax
No new tax cuts?
States with a stable economy have created a great opportunity for tax relief as the national economy begins to recover from the pandemic.Curtis Shelton | March 16, 2021
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Health Care
Putting an end to surprise medical bills in Oklahoma
Health care, unlike nearly all other professions, operates with no price transparency. Providers are free to make up numbers as they go, leading to wildly inflated bills.Jonathan Small | March 15, 2021
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Good Government
Ban on controversial ‘training’ sidelined
Several state Republican lawmakers filed legislation this year to prevent government-funded entities from mandating the controversial training, which critics say endorses explicit racism and social division.Ray Carter | March 15, 2021
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Higher Education
OSU ‘diversity training’ says gender is ‘not only male and female’
Students at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater are required to take at least two courses that may have nothing at all to do with their major or minor fields of study in order to satisfy the university’s most recent “diversity and inclusion” benchmarks.Mike Brake | March 12, 2021
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Budget & Tax, Education
OK House: Yes on half-billion in tax credits; no school choice
House lawmakers voted to issue more than a half-billion in new tax credits and deductions with 66 percent going to the state’s largest corporations--but they sidelined a far smaller tax credit that would have benefitted low-income children by increasing school-choice opportunitiesRay Carter | March 11, 2021