Articles
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Education
Oklahoma’s per-pupil spending is up
According to the latest available data from the National Center for Education Statistics, since 1999 per-pupil spending has risen from $8,624 to $9,728.Vicki Alger | January 10, 2017
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Budget & Tax, Good Government
An agenda for the legislature
Our lawmakers have a rare opportunity to take some real steps to address chronic budget issues and to make our state a better, safer, more attractive place to live.Jonathan Small | January 10, 2017
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Health Care
Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Enrollment Is Shattering Projections
Enrollment in previously reviewed states has blasted further past projected maximums, and new data from additional expansion states indicate the problem is even worse than previously known.Jonathan Ingram & Nicholas Horton | January 1, 2017
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Higher Education
Higher Ed Efficiency Questioned
82 percent of Oklahoma voters think higher education could be operated more efficiently. Fully 80 percent think the $411,000 annual compensation for Oklahoma’s chancellor of higher education is excessive.Brandon Dutcher | January 1, 2017
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Higher Education
Common-Sense Higher Ed Reforms
To help bring discipline to the higher education system and to make college more affordable for students, we offer the following recommendations.Jonathan Small & Brandon Dutcher | January 1, 2017
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Education
Ed Choice Mythbusting Never Ends
Keeping up with the myths people throw around in Oklahoma and elsewhere about school choice is a full time job.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | January 1, 2017
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Education
Ed Choice Policies Will Help Revitalize Cities
Oklahoma City needs to recognize that good leadership can’t stop school assignments from concentrating poverty.Dr. Bartley R. Danielsen & Kirk Humphreys | January 1, 2017
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Education
ESAs Are a Much-Needed Refinement of the Public Education Model
Although Oklahoma may have suffered an ESA setback in 2016, the fight is far from over.Lindsey M. Burke | January 1, 2017
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Budget & Tax, Education
Raise Teacher Pay Without Raising Taxes
Oklahoma can’t afford to lose more homegrown talent to other states, whether in teaching or other professions. With SQ 779’s defeat, Oklahomans have given the Legislature the opportunity to address this urgency without further burdening working Oklahomans.Dave Bond | January 1, 2017
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Budget & Tax, Criminal Justice
How to Increase Labor Force Participation in Oklahoma
Both in Oklahoma and nationally, the labor force participation rate has modestly improved since a steep decline caused by the Great Recession, but that recovery from a cyclical decline has likely peaked.William Freeland | January 1, 2017