Articles
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Budget & Tax, Education
Budget plan includes tax cuts, school choice, and savings
Gov. Kevin Stitt and legislative leaders have announced a state budget agreement that cuts taxes for all Oklahomans, increases school-choice opportunities for families, and leaves state government with more than $1 billion in savings.Ray Carter | May 13, 2021
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Education
OKCPS board member decries ‘racism on this board’
According to Oklahoma City School Board member Ruth Veales, the members of the Oklahoma City school board are themselves racist—and have been for years.Ray Carter | May 13, 2021
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Education
School choice offers escape from critical-race-theory harm
Expansion or creation of new school-choice programs, including Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), could help negate the issue of critical race theory.Ray Carter | May 13, 2021
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Higher Education
Coddle culture threatens core freedoms, Piper says
The coddle culture of colleges has now bled out into the broader culture and threatens basic freedoms, according to author and former Oklahoma Wesleyan University President Everett Piper.Ray Carter | May 12, 2021
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Health Care
Hospitals defend rapid-pay system criticized by state audit
Hospital officials are urging lawmakers to reject a Medicaid cost-control plan and instead preserve a rapid-pay system that a state audit indicated has resulted in as much as $845 million in ineligible taxpayer-funded payments to providers.Ray Carter | May 12, 2021
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Budget & Tax
Lottery tickets provide better return than film subsidies
Advocates of supersizing Oklahoma’s film-subsidy program to as much as $50 million annually say the program will provide significant economic benefit to Oklahoma.Ray Carter | May 11, 2021
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Budget & Tax, Health Care
House Medicaid plan ill-advised
House Republicans have voted to further boost the added cost by up to another $277 million per year.Jonathan Small | May 10, 2021
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Budget & Tax, Health Care
Senate Bill 131 bad for taxpayers, Medicaid patients
Beginning July 1, Oklahoma’s Medicaid program will open up eligibility to certain able-bodied adultsKaitlyn Finley | May 10, 2021
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Education, Culture & the Family
Stitt signs ban on racist teaching
Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a bill that prohibits public schools from teaching children that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex.”Ray Carter | May 7, 2021
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Budget & Tax
Does Oklahoma’s film tax credit violate the state constitution?
SB 608 may violate parts of the Oklahoma state constitution.Ryan Haynie | May 7, 2021