Articles
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Education
Teachers’ union tacitly admits CRT is in Oklahoma schools
The Oklahoma Education Association asked the Oklahoma State Department of Education to provide legal safeguards for teachers who are ordered by their employer to incorporate CRT into the classroom setting.Ray Carter | May 17, 2022
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Education
Sec. Walters tells textbook companies to obey CRT ban
Oklahoma Secretary of Education Ryan Walters has informed school-textbook publishers that the content of their educational materials must comply with Oklahoma law that bans the teaching of certain tenets broadly associated with Critical Race Theory.Ray Carter | May 12, 2022
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Education
Deer Creek schools hire pro-CRT group
The Deer Creek school district has hired the Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice to provide up to 13 workshops whose objectives include a focus on “diversity, inclusion, implicit bias, and inclusive leadership.”Ray Carter | May 10, 2022
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Budget & Tax, Education
School spending surge brings complaints, not improvement
Education spending and teacher pay are up dramatically, but so far Oklahomans are simply paying more for less.Ray Carter | May 4, 2022
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Education, Culture & the Family
Moving school-board elections to November will empower parents
Those who oppose school-board election reform aren’t fighting for better schools. They’re fighting to keep parents from having influence in Oklahoma classrooms.Jonathan Small | May 2, 2022
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Education
Private-school choice upholds our civic values
Empirical research suggests that school-choice programs have a positive effect on civic values and practices such as patriotism, tolerance, civic knowledge, and more.Byron Schlomach, Ph.D. | May 2, 2022
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Education, Good Government
School bathroom bill clears House
Oklahoma public schools will no longer be allowed to force female students to share public bathrooms with male students under legislation that received broad approval in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.Ray Carter | April 29, 2022
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Education, Good Government
OCPA praises House action on bathroom policy
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs President Jonathan Small praised House lawmakers for taking quick action today to prevent female students from having to share bathrooms with male students.Jonathan Small | April 28, 2022
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Education
Hofmeister ducking bathroom issue; Legislature should act
Joy Hofmeister’s effort to prevent action on school-bathroom policies is an enormous failure of leadership. State lawmakers should step up to address the issue.Jonathan Small | April 27, 2022
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Education
House votes to bar union freeloading on state system
Teacher-union employees—who do not work in a school classroom—could no longer be counted as state employees under a bill passed by the Oklahoma House of Representatives.Ray Carter | April 27, 2022