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Education
Oklahoma public schools receive $15,111 per student. 80 percent of private schools charge less.
Oklahoma public schools received an average of $15,111 in revenue per student during the 2024-2025 school year. That’s more than the tuition charged by at least 80% of Oklahoma private schools.Ray Carter | August 18, 2026
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Budget & Tax, Education
Oklahoma schools got $3 billion more. Much of it is sitting in the bank.
A new report raises questions about whether Oklahoma’s education system has a funding problem or a spending problem, particularly as school districts accumulate large reserves while teacher hiring lags behind overall staffing growth.Ray Carter | August 13, 2026
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Education
Third-grade retention law reaps results in Indiana
Indiana’s improving literacy rates offer Oklahoma another example of how early intervention and third-grade retention can help struggling readers while underscoring the depth of Oklahoma’s own reading crisis.Ray Carter | August 13, 2026
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Education
New research finds school-choice students outperform peers
New research from Wisconsin and Arkansas provides fresh evidence that students using school-choice programs can achieve stronger academic outcomes than comparable students in traditional public schools.Ray Carter | August 10, 2026
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Education
Researchers find reading retention threat boosts learning
A new study from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University provides fresh evidence supporting Oklahoma’s renewed third-grade reading reforms, finding that Ohio’s similar reading law produced significant and lasting academic gains that extended into middle school.Ray Carter | August 4, 2026
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Education
Socialists claim key role in 2018 Oklahoma teacher walkout
A Democratic Socialists of America publication credits socialist teachers with helping inspire the 2018 Oklahoma teacher walkout, while prominent figures in the Oklahoma protests openly embraced socialism or coordinated with socialist organizations.Ray Carter | August 3, 2026
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Education
As socialist strategy focuses on schools, Oklahoma’s low-turnout elections could boost their agenda
Documents distributed by the Democratic Socialists of America encourage socialists to become teachers, build influence within teachers' unions, and run for local school boards.Ray Carter | July 30, 2026
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Education, Culture & the Family
Oklahoma officials join Supreme Court fight over religious liberty and school choice
Oklahoma officials have joined members of Congress and attorneys general from across the country in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the rights of religious schools in a case challenging Colorado's exclusion of Catholic preschools from a state-funded universal preschool program.Ray Carter | July 21, 2026
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Education
Deadline change may have impacted Oklahoma school-choice families
Enrollment in Oklahoma's Parental Choice Tax Credit program continues to grow, with more than 40,000 students approved for the 2026–2027 school year. Most tax-credit recipients continue to come from low- and middle-income households.Ray Carter | June 25, 2026
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Education
School-choice backers cruise to victory in Oklahoma primaries
Candidates and incumbents who supported school-choice policies scored victories across Oklahoma in the June 16 primary elections, including lawmakers who backed expansion of the Oklahoma Parental Choice Tax Credit program.Ray Carter | June 18, 2026