National School Choice Week is in full swing across the country and also in Oklahoma (kudos to Gov. Mary Fallin for proclaiming it so). ...

Mitch Daniels isn’t afraid to say what needs to be said.  In 2010 The Weekly Standard profiled the Indiana governor in a cover...

Imagine a state where a mom using Medicaid could only take her daughter to a government hospital, or where child care subsidies from the...

Oklahoma certainly has its share of school-performance woes, and I dare say over the last two decades no one in Oklahoma has spilled mor...

Writing in The Oklahoman, OCPA vice president of policy Brandon Dutcher contends that, in at least one respect, the new Oklahom...

There are 18 students in Johnny’s classroom. Multiply that number by $8,301 (Oklahoma’s per-student expenditure*), and you end up with $...

Most parents and policymakers believe their public schools are safe. They might change their minds if actual safety statistics were more...

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. -- Safety Opportunity Scholarships, which empower parents to choose safer schools for students who have faced bully...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma school districts cannot sue parents who use state funds to send their special-needs children to private schools...

“As the winds of austerity sweep through the country, winter is coming for academia,” Walter Russell Mead recently wrote (‘Academia’s Da...

Of the criticisms commonly leveled at capitalism, none is more discordant than this one: "Capitalists are materialistic." Capitalists ce...

No politicization, please The sparkling weather in Oklahoma City today contrasts sharply with TV images of cresting wav...

A new study of school personnel released today by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice lends credence to the oft-cited observa...

All of us at OCPA are still mourning the death of University of Oklahoma historian J. Rufus Fears, who died unexpectedly on Oct. 6. Dr. ...

In this month's Perspective, Heritage Foundation experts Lindsey M. Burke and Stuart M. Butler meditate on the potential future...

As The Oklahoman recently noted in an excellent editorial, tuition and fees in Oklahoma continue to skyrocket. “In-state tuitio...

A national ranking of colleges and universities showed mixed results for institutions of higher learning in Oklahoma. U.S. News and W...

“Oklahoma taxpayers are saving more than $60 million each year due to a series of reforms approved by the Oklahoma Legislature and signe...

Rebecca Hamilton is a courageous lady. A Democratic state representative from Oklahoma City, she’s a self-described feminist who is libe...

If music players had experienced the same cost/performance trends as public education, “we’d all still be lugging around cassette boom b...