Articles
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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
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Education
Hofmeister sends mixed messages on bathroom policy
A spokesperson for State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister now says transgender bathroom policies are subject to local control in public schools and not mandated by any court ruling, apparently contradicting a prior statement from Hofmeister’s office.Ray Carter | April 25, 2022
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Education
Indoctrination in public schools continues even after legislation
Rep. John Wills, Speaker Pro-Tempore in the Iowa House of Representatives, sent an update to his constituents with a reminder that legislation alone is not enough to prevent some extremists from using public schools as their own ideological training camps.Trent England | April 25, 2022