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Law & Principles
OCPA Legislative Scorecard: Watch List
Here are a list of bills that are eligible to be included on the OCPA Legislative Scorecard for the 2024 legislative session.Staff | February 13, 2024
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Law & Principles
Ban on ranked-choice voting advances
Under a bill advanced by the House Elections and Ethics Committee, the practice of ranked-choice voting would not be allowed in Oklahoma elections.Ray Carter | February 12, 2024
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Education
School-board election change gets strong support
The bill’s author says moving local school board elections to November will increase voter turnout and save taxpayer dollars.Ray Carter | February 12, 2024
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Higher Education, Law & Principles
OCPA praises court for protecting students from OSU retaliation
OCPA President Jonathan Small praised an order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit that preserves the right of students to challenge the constitutionality of Oklahoma State University policies without being identified by name.Staff | February 12, 2024
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Higher Education, Law & Principles
Court order protects students from OSU retaliation
OSU argued that students should be forced to reveal their identities if they challenge the university’s policies on free speech. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit disagreed, siding with the students.Ray Carter | February 9, 2024
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Budget & Tax
Tax policies have consequences
Instead of punishing those who have been successful, states should adopt policies that make it easier for more people to find that same success.Curtis Shelton | February 7, 2024
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Budget & Tax
Oklahoma lawmakers take bold stance for working families
By voting to cut Oklahoma’s personal income tax immediately, members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives have demonstrated they understand the financial pressures bearing down on working families across our state.Jonathan Small | February 7, 2024
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Education
Oklahoma schools using virtual days to poach teachers, cook records
At some Oklahoma public schools, more than one in four school days are occurring online rather than in person, effectively generating bogus attendance records for schools, helping districts poach teachers from schools that do provide in-person instruction, and producing as little as 30 minutes of teaching per day even as taxpayers are funding full school days, according to state lawmakers.Ray Carter | February 6, 2024
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Law & Principles
Bill mandating arbitrary DHS investigation of parents should be killed
Legislation that would subject Oklahoma parents to a Department of Human Services background check if they homeschool their children, or even move to another school district, should be killed.Staff | February 6, 2024
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Law & Principles
Governor notes Oklahoma ‘reservations’ not normal
In this year’s “State of the State” address, Gov. Kevin Stitt bluntly noted that those supposed reservations in Oklahoma have no relationship to Native American reservations in other states.Ray Carter | February 6, 2024