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Oklahoma’s monopoly education system gets more money
Like cicadas emerging from their shells, they come out every spring — a delegation from Oklahoma’s monopoly education system warning us ...
Tip sheet: Story ideas from outside the bubble
There are many explanations (technological, demographic, et al.) for the chart above, and I’m not prepared to make the case that liberal...
VIDEO: Oklahoma’s school staffing surge
I recently sat down with Dr. Ben Scafidi, professor of economics at Georgia College, to discuss the startling growth in bureaucratic ove...
All your kids belong to us
Even by MSNBC’s standards, this is a jaw-dropper. But let us be grateful for this woman’s candor. When Americans on the political left (...
Overhead growth not helping students, taxpayers
For many years OCPA has drawn attention to the excessive bureaucratic overhead in Oklahoma’s public education system. Indeed, the sy...
Give Mothers Their Druthers (and Their Money)
In their book The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know—And Men Can’t Say, Phyllis Schlafly and Suzanne Venker poi...
Could Oklahoma Become an Income-Tax Sandwich?
Lawmakers in Nebraska and Louisiana are watching, with the chief executives in both states wanting to follow the example of their collea...
Special-Needs Students Yearn for Acceptance
Two of my children once attended a small private school in a town where we had just moved. Early in the fall semester, another new kid a...
Education Savings Accounts Would Empower Parents
Imagine a state where a mom using Medicaid could only take her daughter to a government hospital, or where child care subsidies from the...
School choice myth-busting in Oklahoma
School-board elections will be held across the state on February 12, 2013. Charles Daniels, a Bartlesville attorney who served on his lo...
Administrative Hiring Binge Costs $229 Million Annually
Moderator Bob Schieffer was only partly right in a recent presidential debate when he said, “I think we all love teachers.” Decades-lo...
A Better Way to Keep Oklahoma Students Safe at School
Most parents and policymakers believe their public schools are safe. They might change their minds if actual safety statistics were more...
Safety Opportunity Scholarships Envisioned for Students in Unsafe P...
A leading school choice advocate is encouraging Oklahoma state lawmakers to look at model legislation creating Safety Opportunity Schola...
What Is Truth?
This is a story about truth—veritas. As in: Veritas Classical Academy of Oklahoma City, a blended (or “hybrid”) educational system that...
An Idea to Help Parents Afford College
As The Oklahoman recently noted, tuition and fees in Oklahoma continue to skyrocket: “In-state tuition and fees at OU in 1980 w...
‘Choice is what makes our country great’
The new motion picture “Won’t Back Down” has spurred a healthy and much-needed conversation about education reform in this country. One ...
Let’s trigger parental choice
State Senator David Holt, an Oklahoma City Republican, announced this week that he intends to file “parent trigger” legislation of the s...
Educational freedom marches on
With enrollment surging, the Tulsa World reports, Town & Country School is expanding. Town & Country, a private, firs...
‘Why should the state keep propping up the unions?’
According to a recent survey conducted on behalf of Harvard University’s Program on Education Policy and Governance and the journal ...
Oklahoma City School District Should Focus on Academics, Not Team A...
"Government officials in Oklahoma should encourage our youngsters to aspire to attend one of the nation's great public universities....
