Articles
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Law & Principles
As radical teachers complain, HB 1775 author says it is ‘doing what it is supposed to do’
By declaring House Bill 1775 is now impeding their work, some teachers—including one self-described radical—are indirectly indicating some concepts broadly associated with Critical Race Theory have been infused into classroom instruction.Ray Carter | October 5, 2022
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Education
Schools embrace politics in ways that hamper families
Oklahoma City Public Schools has announced it will close on Election Day, Nov. 8, and make up the lost day on April 7, 2023—Good Friday.Ray Carter | October 5, 2022
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Law & Principles
Stitt signs law preventing youth transgender surgeries
Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed legislation that blocks certain funding to Oklahoma Children’s Hospital at OU Health if the facility provides puberty blockers or performs transgender surgeries on youth.Ray Carter | October 4, 2022
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Education
Oklahoma open-transfer process often arbitrary for families
A 2021 state law that expanded the ability for families to seek open transfers so their children can attend other public-school districts has resulted in a significant increase in transfer requests.Ray Carter | October 4, 2022
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Health Care, Law & Principles
Child-transgender limits headed to governor
Legislation that supporters said would force the closure of a clinic that provides puberty blockers and transgender-surgery services to Oklahoma children won easy approval in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.Ray Carter | September 29, 2022
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
Senate votes to restrict transgender child surgeries
Members of the Oklahoma Senate have approved legislation that restricts a taxpayer-funded hospital from providing puberty blockers to children or playing a role in child surgeries that cosmetically change the patient’s body to look like that of the opposite sex.Ray Carter | September 29, 2022
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Health Care, Law & Principles
OSMA brief: ‘pregnant people’ deserve ‘abortion care’
The Oklahoma State Medical Association (OSMA) has joined an amici curiae brief calling for Oklahoma’s abortion laws to be struck down, declaring those restrictions violate the Oklahoma Constitution’s guarantee of the “right to life.”Ray Carter | September 28, 2022
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Health Care, Culture & the Family
Restriction sought on puberty blockers, trans surgeries
Oklahoma lawmakers will consider legislation this week that restricts funding to state entities that provide puberty blockers or referrals for transgender surgery to children.Ray Carter | September 27, 2022
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Budget & Tax, Culture & the Family
Oklahoma to fund transgender procedures on kids?
Even as Tennessee’s governor has called for an investigation of a Vanderbilt clinic performing double mastectomies on adolescent girls, Oklahoma is poised to indirectly fund an OU hospital providing and abetting similar “transgender” services.Ray Carter | September 26, 2022
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Education
Oklahoma testing results remain well below pre-pandemic norm
Despite record-high levels of funding, a large majority of Oklahoma students in all grades and subjects are not proficient in academic performance.Ray Carter | September 23, 2022