Articles
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Health Care
With Medicaid expansion, Oklahoma has higher costs, worse outcomes
Oklahoma’s Medicaid expansion was sold on a promise to financially enrich state hospitals and improve Oklahomans’ health outcomes. Five years and billions of taxpayer dollars later, is it working?Ray Carter | June 23, 2025
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Law & Principles
U.S. Supreme Court upholds ban on child sex-change surgeries
In a decision with repercussions for Oklahoma, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Tennessee law prohibiting medical officials from performing sex-change surgeries on minors who identify as transgender.Ray Carter | June 18, 2025
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Education, Higher Education
After outcry, OSU stops promoting discredited reading program
Oklahoma lawmakers have banned the use of the discredited “three-cueing” method of reading instruction in public schools. Yet OSU continues to tout a program that uses it.Ray Carter | June 18, 2025
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Education
Oklahoma teacher union hails private-school vouchers … for teachers’ kids
A new voucher-style benefit applies exclusively to teachers’ children, even those from high-income households. House Bill 1727 expands the Oklahoma’s Promise scholarship program to include high-income teacher families while maintaining strict income caps for all other Oklahomans.Ray Carter | June 18, 2025
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Education
Local control? Study shows voters rarely hold school boards accountable
Despite Oklahoma school-board elections being scheduled on obscure dates that average just 6 percent turnout, defenders of the system claim those elections provide valid “local control” of schools. But new research shows that academic outcomes have little impact on the results of school-board races.Ray Carter | June 16, 2025
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Law & Principles
Advocates of California-style elections sue over Oklahoma petition reform
Activists working to impose a California-style election system in Oklahoma have filed lawsuits seeking to overturn our state’s newly enacted initiative-petition reforms.Ray Carter | June 13, 2025
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Law & Principles, Culture & the Family
Vermont foster-care case highlights anti-Christian discrimination
A court case in Vermont highlights why Oklahoma lawmakers acted this year to make certain that religious couples cannot be prohibited from serving as foster parents if those couples disagree with far-left views on transgenderism.Ray Carter | June 12, 2025
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Education
School choice fuels Catholic school growth
Thanks to robust school-choice programs that are open to nearly all families, enrollment in Catholic private schools has surged in several states, including Oklahoma.Ray Carter | June 11, 2025
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Law & Principles
Grassley’s child-trafficking investigation continues
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley recently announced that federal officials continue to investigate allegations of human trafficking involving unaccompanied children who entered the United States illegally during the Biden administration.Ray Carter | June 11, 2025
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Law & Principles
‘Jungle primary,’ illegal-immigration sanctuary policies linked
A new report lists the city of Tulsa among existing “sanctuary” jurisdictions nationwide.Ray Carter | June 10, 2025