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State governments from New York to California are begging Washington to bail them out of a combined $48 billion budget shortfall estimated for 2009.

Why not, as a matter of public policy, give Deborah Brown the chance to help even more kids to succeed?

There's plenty of evidence that state budgets are strapped these days, due to shrinking tax revenues from a faltering economy, etc. It's also clear that a number of school systems are feeling the pinch.

The cost of undergraduate education nationwide has skyrocketed over the last 20 years.

Dr. Donald O’Neil Tyler is the pastor of Greater Grace Temple in north Tulsa. But it was fatherhood, not his role as a pastor, which first made him a school choice advocate.

The compensation of Oklahoma’s government employees exceeds that of their private-sector counterparts. But a bigger problem is that we simply have too many government employees in this state: Oklahoma’s ratio of government employment to private-sector employment is a disturbing 5th highest in the country. Bringing this ratio in line with the national average would have saved Oklahoma taxpayers $2.8 billion last year.

The financial markets have taken on a lot of water recently. Congress has been bailing furiously. But are we doing anything to actually fix the leak?

Those of us who are concerned about health care have a lot to worry about.

Recent news stories tell us that the state’s most powerful labor union has collected signed petitions asking for more money for education.

A major industry has gotten in line to receive a bailout. It directly employs more than six million people. That’s a lot of people considering that there are a total of 300 million men, women, and children in the United States, of whom 137 million are currently employed (excluding farmers). So the workers in this industry constitute about four percent of all U.S. workers.