Articles
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Education
Effort advances to prevent profiteering off charter schools
Members of the Oklahoma Senate voted Tuesday to bring Oklahoma’s charter school laws in line with national standards and prevent charter-school sponsors from using the schools as a de facto profit generator.Ray Carter | May 12, 2020
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Budget & Tax, Education
Budget chair: State superintendent did not ‘help on anything—period’
The chair of the House committee that drafts the budget for Oklahoma’s K-12 school system said Tuesday that State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister refused to provide meaningful assistance in this year’s budget process.Ray Carter | May 12, 2020
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Education
How big a Department of Education does Oklahoma need?
From curriculum to nutrition to family engagement to technology, the Oklahoma State Department of Education's interference in your local school never rests. And when the state isn't overregulating schools, it's promoting the indoctrination of students into a progressive political agenda.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | May 9, 2020
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Education
New research looks at homeschooling favorability, academic outcomes
With tens of millions of American parents these days suddenly coping with Johnny’s algebra lesson and Susie’s civics quiz, those parents seem to be gaining a new appreciation of the value and rewards of homeschooling and of the level of parental involvement that makes it work.Mike Brake | May 4, 2020
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Budget & Tax, Education
How will schools spend federal COVID funds? No one knows
Oklahoma’s public K-12 schools will receive nearly $161 million through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. But officials appear to have little idea how the money will be spent beyond extremely broad categories that could include a multitude of expenses.Ray Carter | April 23, 2020
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Education, Culture & the Family
How many Oklahoma students are continuing to learn?
With schools across the nation closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, a key question is: How many students are continuing to learn?Mike Brake | April 21, 2020
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Education
Amid millions for K-12 schools, lobbyist group opposes aid for private sector
The Oklahoma State School Board Association (OSSBA) has declared its opposition to the provision of some federal aid to families with children in private schools, declaring education providers in the private sector are not facing “a pandemic-related emergency.”Ray Carter | April 21, 2020
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Budget & Tax, Education
Online shift may save school funds, but numbers remain elusive
Now that all Oklahoma public schools have shifted to distance learning, potentially significant savings could be achieved for many previously routine expenses. But state officials do not have that data and existing law may indirectly encourage school officials to spend those savings before July.Ray Carter | April 17, 2020
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Education
Digital learning and homeschooling during—and after—the crisis
Digital learning and homeschooling have hit K-12 education like—well, like a pandemic. As in so many other sectors, from politics to business to the movies, people are asking to what extent things can ever return to normal from the drastic changes imposed by our public health emergency.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | April 17, 2020
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Education
How much instruction are Oklahoma school districts providing?
A survey of the online learning dashboards implemented on Monday, April 6, by a number of Oklahoma school districts for the remainder of the virus-canceled 2019-20 school year showed that many are providing little to no student instruction.Mike Brake | April 7, 2020