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Education, Law & Principles
Bureaucrats retain power under open-transfer law
When lawmakers voted last year to expand open-transfer opportunities, allowing families to more easily send children to school districts other than the one in which they reside, supporters thought the change would empower parents.Jonathan Small | March 13, 2022
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Education
Concerns about Hofmeister politicization, competence arise
Recent financial estimates produced by Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) are leading a top lawmaker to question whether the agency has become politicized under the leadership of State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister.Ray Carter | March 11, 2022
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Education
Is the status quo working?
According to a 2019 survey conducted by WPA Intelligence, only a third of Oklahoma voters say Oklahoma’s public education system is providing a good return on investment.Brandon Dutcher & Curtis Shelton | March 11, 2022
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Education
Oklahoma school-choice bill gets national endorsements
A major effort to expand school choice opportunity is not only receiving widespread attention and support in Oklahoma, but also nationwide support as major conservative leaders have now endorsed the bill.Ray Carter | March 10, 2022
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Education
School CRT regulations updated, but critics say more needed
The State Board of Education has approved permanent rules for a new state law that bans schools from teaching certain concepts broadly associated with Critical Race Theory, but one critic told the board the regulations do not go far enough.Ray Carter | March 10, 2022
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Education
Anti-school-choice groups’ poll contradicted—by own pollster
A group of public-school entities have released a poll claiming the overwhelming majority of Oklahoma voters oppose school choice. But that finding is contradicted by their own pollster’s previous findings—twice.Ray Carter | March 10, 2022
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Education, Culture & the Family
Parents support homeschooler inclusion in school-choice bill
In the ongoing debate over allowing state education funding to follow students to any provider, including homeschooling or private schools, some homeschoolers have objected, leading lawmakers to recently strip those parents from the bill.Ray Carter | March 9, 2022
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Education
Lawmakers mum as mother struggles to find open-transfer spot
Even as parents are voicing frustration with the system, education leaders in the Oklahoma House of Representatives have responded with silence.Ray Carter | March 8, 2022
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Education
O’Connor seeks answers to feds labeling parents ‘terrorists’
Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor is participating in a 14-state effort to force the Biden administration to comply with federal open-records laws regarding an effort to target school parents using anti-terrorism laws.Ray Carter | March 4, 2022
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Education
Major school-choice expansion headed to Senate floor
A bill that would provide the most significant expansion of school-choice opportunity in Oklahoma history has won approval from a Senate committee and will next go before the entire Oklahoma Senate.Ray Carter | March 2, 2022