Articles
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Education
School choice coda: Let them lick toes
Right now, school board elections are dominated by school employees and other insiders, with tiny turnouts that protect their power. Let's move school board elections to the normal election cycle so that normal voters participate.Trent England | March 13, 2024
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Judicial Reform
Senator ‘outraged’ by Dobbs wants to stop Oklahoma judicial reform
Tired of our state’s current, secretive process for selecting judges, many would prefer to use the nation’s most time-tested method. Why is one of Oklahoma’s most left-leaning politicians worried?Trent England | March 4, 2024
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Law & Principles
Ban RCV to prevent election disasters … like this one
Elections should be conducted so that voters can understand the process and trust the results. RCV fails this test. To avoid all these unnecessary risks, Oklahoma should protect our elections and ban RCV.Trent England | February 15, 2024
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Higher Education
False: Frontier’s phony fact checks
As leftist bias and technological change wreak havoc on traditional journalism, some activist scribes have found a new model. One Oklahoma-based website hides behind preposterous claims of journalistic ethics to mask its own objectives. No wonder trust in the media continues to plummet.Trent England | January 26, 2024
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Law & Principles
Stitt defends rule of law from tribal tax collectors
Oklahoma taxpayers can thank both Stitt and the Framers of American government for a system where executives have the power to negotiate deals—and to veto bills that try to interfere with that power.Trent England | June 7, 2023
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Law & Principles
Coalition thanks Stitt for free-speech stand
A broad coalition of groups that support freedom of speech and the press has sent a letter of thanks to Gov. Kevin Stitt for his veto of HB 1236. The measure would have weakened the Oklahoma Citizen Participation Act, which provides legal recourse against frivolous lawsuits that are intended to chill free speech.Trent England | May 26, 2023
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Education
Why homeschoolers deserve school choice
Oklahoma should respect homeschoolers and treat them fairly. If families want or need to get some of their tax dollars back to support educating their own children, they should have that choice.Trent England | May 15, 2023
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Education
Education beyond stereotypes
There is not one perfect way to do school so every child can thrive. The answer is to let families and schools come up with lots of answers.Trent England | May 4, 2023
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Education, Culture & the Family
To stop school porn, enact school choice
Schools should be for education, not indoctrination. But for those who want to radically change society, schools are the obvious place to start.Trent England | April 12, 2023
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Law & Principles
Support for driver's license bill makes sense
Americans should be angry about the failures of politicians in Washington, D.C., but at the same time, we should enact workable public policies at the state level like HB2114 and SB669, which would create a way for people who file taxes but are illegal aliens to receive an Oklahoma drivers license.Jonathan Small, Trent England & Ryan Haynie | March 14, 2023