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Despite Crowning Achievement of Legislative Session, the Work is No...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin recently signed five significant reform proposals that, advocates say, will begin transforming state gover...
Why Not Oklahoma?
School choice is the most studied and proven reform to improve public schools. It also provides real hope for students and parents, so w...
State Budget Deal Struck
The budget agreement for Fiscal Year-2012 is one of pleasant surprises and missed opportunities. Hear OCPA’s take on the deal from fisca...
Legislature Passes Tax Credit Scholarship Bill
Oklahoma is quickly becoming a national leader in education reform. For the second straight year, the state Legislature has passed a sub...
How Jeb Bush Helped Bring School Choice to Oklahoma
Jeb Bush’s work on education reform -- including in Oklahoma -- is the subject of the cover story in the current issue of National Review.
Dysfunction Junction, What's Your Function?
The state Board of Education is a classic example of dysfunction in Oklahoma’s executive branch. Constitutional scholar (and OCPA fellow...
Black Mom Goes to Jail, but Who's the Real Criminal?
Kelley Williams-Bolar wanted to send her children to a better school district, but the modern-day George Wallaces running the place were...
Oklahoma's Bridge to Nowhere
Attempts by Washington to socially engineer people away from cars to intercity rail services and transit are unlikely to work at any exp...
OCPA's Freedom Agenda for 2011
In the end, the contending philosophies of Oklahoma’s two competing candidates for governor came down to this: a predominantly economic ...
A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting the Accounting Right
The OEA claims Oklahoma is last in the region in per-pupil spending. First in the region, last in the region, what difference does it ma...
What a Tax Hike Would Do to Oklahoma's Economy
As Oklahoma policymakers ponder next year’s “budget hole,” they should remember that a tax hike would mean lower incomes and fewer jobs.
The Freedom Movement is Here to Stay
OCPA is part of a network of 58 liberty-minded, state-based think tanks connected through the State Policy Network.
We Can't Afford a Value Added Tax
As a September 2010 article in Investors Business Daily put it, “A VAT puts big spenders on steroids.” As this video by the Center for F...
The Coming Explosion of Oklahoma's Pension Bomb
Oklahoma’s public employee pension system is a time-bomb waiting to explode. OCPA research fellow Steve Anderson gives an overview of th...
The Dirty Big Secret of Education Policy
Education policy is back in the news like it hasn’t been in years. And if it feels like nothing’s changed, that’s because in some ways i...
Negative Impacts of State Income Tax Are Numerous
Did you know there are nine states that have no state income tax? These non-income-tax states are geographically and economically divers...
When Special Education Isn't: The Alan Edmondson Story
“I want to know who hurt my grandson…Point to the person who hurt you.” He stood up, walked directly over to the temp… and pointed right...
Community Spirit in the 21st Century
When government does not perform up to our expectations the usual response is either to decry its wastefulness or to acquiesce to higher...
What You Need to Know About State Questions on the November Ballot
CapitolBeatOK editor Pat McGuigan, the author of “The Politics of Direct Democracy: Case Studies in Popular Decision Making” and a featu...
Fighting ObamaCare, One Patient at a Time
Lay off employees, drop Medicare patients or relocate to a cheaper office: those were the recent options for one Atlanta urologist in th...
