Articles
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Education
Sports group tries to block student transfers in Oklahoma
Under a rule adopted (then suspended) by the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA), students who attend a summer sports camp are barred from playing any sports for a year if they move into a district that employs a coach who also worked those camps during the summer months.Ray Carter | September 25, 2024
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Education
Homeschool parents support ESAs, tax credits
A nationwide survey of homeschooling parents finds support for educational-choice policies.Brandon Dutcher | September 24, 2024
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Culture & the Family
Oklahoma judges: Men can be women
In numerous cases, Oklahoma judges have declared that men are women (and vice versa) and ordered that state documents, such as birth certificates, be altered.Ray Carter | September 23, 2024
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Economy
Oklahoma needs to cut red tape
Oklahoma has 142,313 regulations on the books. In comparison, the nation’s least-regulated state (Idaho) has just 31,497 regulations in place.Jonathan Small | September 23, 2024
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Higher Education
Report indicates OSU maintains DEI office, despite order
“DEI isn’t going away, it’s just going underground.”Ray Carter | September 19, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma court’s decisions reap ‘hellhole’ designation
“Judicial Hellholes” reports shine a spotlight on places like Oklahoma “where judges systematically apply laws and court procedures in an unfair and unbalanced manner.”Ray Carter | September 19, 2024
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Higher Education
OU, OSU students ding schools in free-speech survey
“I had two professors my freshman year that would constantly bash people who were Christian and who had conservative beliefs,” said an OSU student. “One specific professor told the class, ‘You will not pass my class if you identify Republican.’”Ray Carter | September 18, 2024
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Health Care
A look at work-comp loss costs
Oklahoma’s work-comp reforms were having their intended results.Curtis Shelton | September 17, 2024
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Education
U.S. Supreme Court should take Oklahoma charter-school case
In the St. Isidore case, the Oklahoma Supreme Court got it wrong and effectively discriminated against charter-school proponents because of religion. All Oklahomans would benefit if the U.S. Supreme Court took up the case.Jonathan Small | September 16, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Oklahoma Supreme Court owes citizens written opinions
Oklahoma Supreme Court justices, because they are bound to decide according to the law, must explain the legal basis of their decisions. Inexplicably, Oklahoma’s justices often refuse to do so.Ryan Haynie | September 16, 2024