Articles
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Health Care
Average health-insurance premiums hit $21,000
According to KFF, average family premiums have increased 55 percent over the last decade, while wages and inflation have increased only 27 percent and 19 percent, respectively.Kaitlyn Finley | December 3, 2020
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Education, Good Government
Parents push back against OEA
The Oklahoma Education Association continues to criticize school-choice policies and efforts to preserve in-person instruction at public schools. But the teachers' union is drawing strong online pushback from parents—even on the OEA’s own Facebook page.Ray Carter | December 3, 2020
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Education, Culture & the Family
Teachers union to lawmakers: Ignore voters on school choice
A recent poll showed Oklahoma voters support school-choice policies that allow parents to use tax funding to place their children in private schools. In response, the head of the state’s largest teacher union is urging Oklahoma’s Republican lawmakers to look the other way.Ray Carter | December 2, 2020
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Education
Stillwater per-student revenue growing
Enrollment in Stillwater Public Schools has grown by more than 12 percent over the last decade. During those same 10 years, total revenue has grown by 21 percent.Curtis Shelton | December 2, 2020
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Education
Poll shows strong support for school choice in Oklahoma
A new poll shows strong support for school choice policies in Oklahoma, including those that allow parents to use taxpayer dollars for private-school tuition. Those poll results continue a pattern that has been consistent in Oklahoma for the better part of a decade now.Ray Carter | December 1, 2020
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Budget & Tax
Court case may highlight McGirt challenges for retailers
Business owners wondering how a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling could upend sales-tax issues in eastern Oklahoma may get a hint from a grocery store’s legal challenges now under way in state and federal courts.Ray Carter | December 1, 2020
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Education, Good Government
Parent warns against ending state tests in schools
Some officials have called for elimination of state testing in Oklahoma schools for the second year in a row. But one mother of three children is among those opposed. “I don’t understand how we can afford to lose another year of data."Ray Carter | November 24, 2020
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Education, Culture & the Family
Parent group launches, seeks accountability from schools
Gathered at the Oklahoma Capitol on a brisk Monday, parents announced the formation of a group that will seek to empower families to have greater control in their children’s education—including the ability to hold recall elections for school board members that ignore parents’ wishes.Ray Carter | November 23, 2020
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Economy, Energy
Biden energy plan would wallop Oklahoma economy
The October General Revenue report revealed that Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry continues to struggle.Curtis Shelton | November 23, 2020
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Higher Education
OU strategic plan will impose expensive, coercive diversity regime
On July 28, 2020, the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents approved a new strategic plan.David Randall, Ph.D. | November 20, 2020