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Budget & Tax
House, Senate budget plans include worthwhile items
Oklahomans should encourage their state lawmakers to include tax cuts and workforce scholarships in the final budget agreement.Jonathan Small | May 6, 2024
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Education
Lawmakers object to aiding homeless and special-needs children
Several Oklahoma lawmakers oppose allowing homeless youth to access a scholarship program.Ray Carter | April 25, 2024
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Education
One-year delay for Oklahoma school-choice program harms children
One provision of the Henry scholarship program has caused anguish for some Oklahoma students and families. Legislation awaiting a vote in the Oklahoma House of Representatives would fix it.Ray Carter | April 17, 2024
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Law & Principles
Oklahoma policy goals for 2024
Let’s cut taxes, change the way we select judges, move school-board elections to November, and more.Jonathan Small | January 22, 2024
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Higher Education, Economy
Time for Oklahoma workforce scholarships
With an “Oklahoma Workforce Needs” fund, policymakers can better prepare young adults for the best-paying jobs of the future and put our state economy on a path of greater growth.Jonathan Small | October 16, 2023
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Law & Principles, Culture & the Family
Stitt signs order protecting women’s rights
Filling in gaps left by legislative inactivity, Gov. Kevin Stitt signed an executive order that bars males from being allowed in female-only facilities and events.Ray Carter | August 1, 2023
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Education
Oklahoma tax credits for private-school tuition: Here’s what you need to know
Oklahoma’s political leaders in 2023 enacted universal school choice, providing refundable tax credits for taxpayers who incur private-school tuition expenses or homeschool expenses.Staff | June 30, 2023
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Education
2023 legislative session dominated by education
To a greater degree than in most years, the 2023 session of the Oklahoma Legislature was dominated by one issue—education.Ray Carter | June 20, 2023
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Higher Education
OU defends tuition hike as senators call for reform
The University of Oklahoma’s recent decision to further increase tuition, despite a huge increase in state appropriations, is drawing fire from state Senate leaders and leading to calls for reform, including imposing a legislative freeze on tuition.Ray Carter | June 20, 2023
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Education
Oklahoma enacts universal school choice
Whether you call it a tax credit or a “voucher in disguise,” the important thing is that the parents of all school-age children now have more options.Brandon Dutcher | May 24, 2023
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Education
Tulsa school is rescuing kids
Most parents want their children to not only survive but thrive. Sadly, among some school-choice opponents, that is apparently viewed as a controversial statement.Jonathan Small | April 14, 2023
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Law & Principles
Lawmaker’s racial comment draws pushback
A lawmaker dismissed a significant share of the attendees, apparently based on their skin color, at a recent rally at the Oklahoma Capitol that drew hundreds of people from across the state.Ray Carter | April 5, 2023
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Education, Culture & the Family
Oklahoma parents, students rally for school choice
Hundreds of parents and students urged lawmakers to enact robust school-choice policies this year that will allow Oklahoma families to more easily access private schools and homeschooling, speaking out at a Capitol rally on Thursday.Ray Carter | March 30, 2023
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Education, Law & Principles
Senate votes to reform state scholarship program
Members of the Oklahoma Senate have voted to streamline the process for children to qualify for the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities (LNH) program and to also expand the program to homeless children.Ray Carter | March 13, 2023
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Education
Homeless children added to Oklahoma school-choice program
Homeless children would be added to a longstanding school-choice voucher program, and the process for other students to benefit from the program would be streamlined, under legislation approved by an Oklahoma Senate committee.Ray Carter | March 1, 2023
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Education
Career teachers are scant in the Oklahoma Educators Hall of Fame
The Oklahoma Educators Hall of Fame is filled with the names of school administrators, politicians, union leaders, and lobbyists. Fewer than 10 percent of the inductees are career classroom teachers.Ray Carter | February 24, 2023
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Education
Oklahoma House passes school-choice legislation
Members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives have approved an $800 million education package that includes a half-billion dollars in new funding for public schools and $300 million in refundable tax credits for families that choose to send a child to private school or homeschool.Ray Carter | February 23, 2023
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Education
Barrier to special-needs education access could fall
Children with special needs would have faster access to a state scholarship program that pays for private-school tuition under legislation approved by an Oklahoma Senate committee.Ray Carter | February 14, 2023
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Education
Study: School choice doesn’t harm rural schools
A new study shows that as school-choice programs increase education options in rural areas, they are not associated with the closure of existing public schools in rural counties.Ray Carter | January 25, 2023
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Education, Culture & the Family
To oppose school choice, Democrats attack religious freedom
To combat the growing public demand for robust school choice in Oklahoma, Democratic lawmakers have filed bills that would infringe on Oklahomans’ First Amendment rights and impose regulations to make private schools less effective.Ray Carter | January 24, 2023