Articles
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Education
No statewide COVID mandates for schools
Members of the Oklahoma State Board of Education voted to approve a set of statewide recommendations to aid schools in developing responses to local COVID-19 infection rates, but declined to impose those recommendations as new state mandates.Ray Carter | July 23, 2020
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Health Care
Medicaid fraud still a problem in Oklahoma
As medical-welfare enrollment continues to grow, it’s imperative that the State of Oklahoma weed out fraud, whether stemming from providers or enrollees.Kaitlyn Finley | July 22, 2020
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Economy
Innovative CareerTech program getting Oklahomans back to work
An Oklahoma CareerTech center has created an innovative program to help adults displaced by the coronavirus shutdown move rapidly from the classroom to the workforce.Mike Brake | July 22, 2020
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
State increases COVID surge capacity
Oklahoma officials are increasing the number of hospital beds available to better handle a potential surge in COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma.Ray Carter | July 21, 2020
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Criminal Justice
To reduce over-policing, stop over-legislating
Those wishing to “defund” the police should join those of us who are fighting for limited government.Ryan Haynie | July 21, 2020
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Economy, Culture & the Family
Oklahoma’s unemployment rate among nation’s lowest
Oklahoma’s reopening of business after the COVID shutdown has resulted in one of the nation’s lowest unemployment rates.Ray Carter | July 21, 2020
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Law & Principles
Governor begins work on state-tribal jurisdictional issues
To address state-tribal jurisdictional issues created by a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Gov. Kevin Stitt announced the formation of the Oklahoma Commission on Cooperative Sovereignty.Ray Carter | July 20, 2020
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Education
Oklahoma teacher union attacks aid to low-income and minority students
Gov. Kevin Stitt’s plan to use a small portion of the state’s federal COVID funding to address the education needs of some students has drawn both praise and criticism.Ray Carter | July 20, 2020
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Education
Education opportunity to increase statewide under Stitt plan
Gov. Kevin Stitt announced Friday he will use millions of dollars in federal COVID funds to increase educational opportunity across Oklahoma.Ray Carter | July 17, 2020
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Law & Principles
Attorney General’s tribal agreement falling apart?
Within a day, it appears one of the issues to be ironed out is which tribes were actually part of the agreement.Ray Carter | July 17, 2020