Articles
-
Law & Principles
Online child-protections advance
Two measures intended to reduce online child exploitation and harm won easy approval in Oklahoma House committees this week.Ray Carter | February 14, 2024
-
Education
Some Oklahoma schools have more than a month of ‘virtual days’
Roughly one in five Oklahoma school districts shifted students to “virtual learning” for at least three work weeks of the school year. Two lawmakers say the overuse of “virtual days” is unfair to parents, students, and taxpayers.Ray Carter | February 13, 2024
-
Law & Principles
Ban on ranked-choice voting advances
Under a bill advanced by the House Elections and Ethics Committee, the practice of ranked-choice voting would not be allowed in Oklahoma elections.Ray Carter | February 12, 2024
-
Education
School-board election change gets strong support
The bill’s author says moving local school board elections to November will increase voter turnout and save taxpayer dollars.Ray Carter | February 12, 2024
-
Higher Education, Law & Principles
Court order protects students from OSU retaliation
OSU argued that students should be forced to reveal their identities if they challenge the university’s policies on free speech. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit disagreed, siding with the students.Ray Carter | February 9, 2024
-
Education
Oklahoma schools using virtual days to poach teachers, cook records
At some Oklahoma public schools, more than one in four school days are occurring online rather than in person, effectively generating bogus attendance records for schools, helping districts poach teachers from schools that do provide in-person instruction, and producing as little as 30 minutes of teaching per day even as taxpayers are funding full school days, according to state lawmakers.Ray Carter | February 6, 2024
-
Law & Principles
Governor notes Oklahoma ‘reservations’ not normal
In this year’s “State of the State” address, Gov. Kevin Stitt bluntly noted that those supposed reservations in Oklahoma have no relationship to Native American reservations in other states.Ray Carter | February 6, 2024
-
Budget & Tax
Stitt: Time to put income tax on path to zero
In his sixth “State of the State” address, Gov. Kevin Stitt urged lawmakers not only to cut taxes but also to put the personal income tax on the path to full elimination over time.Ray Carter | February 5, 2024
-
Education
Widowed mother of three among Oklahoma school-choice beneficiaries
Widowed mother Emily McDonald is raising three children, including a son with autism, on a modest income. When her daughter started to be bullied in kindergarten and came home crying nearly every day, Emily knew she had to make a change.Ray Carter | February 5, 2024
-
Judicial Reform, Culture & the Family
Advocates: Oklahoma judicial reform crucial to pro-life cause
Pro-life Oklahomans must support repeal of the Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC)—a secretive group dominated by left-wing attorneys who effectively control judicial selection—two national pro-life advocates noted during a recent Oklahoma visit.Ray Carter | February 2, 2024