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College Soon Will Look Very Different
In spite of all the alarm over rising costs and excessive borrowing for college, one Oklahoman is confident that college will be far les...
Parents Have the Right, Responsibility to Choose Best Schools
In a now-infamous MSNBC commercial, TV host Melissa Harris-Perry blithely and unblinkingly suggests taxpayers don’t spend enough on publ...
Could International Homeschooling Case Have Implications for Oklahoma?
Even as Oklahoma legislators continually affirm the right and responsibility of parents to educate their children, the Obama administrat...
Parental-choice ruling could have Oklahoma implications
In an important decision last week that could have national ramifications, the Indiana Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the...
'To see her now is even more amazing!’
When the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for Students with Disabilities program was enacted in 2010, state Rep. Kris Steele correctly ...
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...
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...
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...
Disabled Children Are Victims of Ideology
In contemporary America it is important to understand the errors of ideology—treating ideas as principles. A principle is a general rul...
Impact of Henry Scholarships subject of documentary film
The historic Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships are the subject of a new 30-minute documentary to be shown Tuesday, July 31, 7 p.m. at th...
State superintendent stands up for special-needs kids
State superintendent Janet Barresi recently drew attention to a series of videos profiling Oklahoma families who have benefited from the...
Put Taxpayers First
The Legislature failed to reduce the income tax and increased state government spending by $321 million. Following the lead of Gov. Scot...
School Choice Improves School Districts’ Fiscal Health
The public education establishment routinely argues that school choice programs, where the money follows the child, harm students who re...
Let (educational) freedom ring
"You could be forgiven," Cato Institute scholar Neal McCluskey writes, "for thinking that first God created public schools, and then, se...
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Tornado relief donation centers
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How fast does Oklahoma’s state govern...
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Keep shutting doors on Obamacare’s Me...
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Why school boards often don’t represent their c...
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At a glance: State ballot questions
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Oklahoma’s Improved Economic Performance Sugges...
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Mitch Daniels, straight shooter
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