Articles
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Economy
ESG targets Oklahoma economy, jobs
With billions in pension assets from multiple states now off-limits, financial funds are having to choose between ideological zealotry or a healthier bottom line.Jonathan Small | September 28, 2022
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Health Care, Law & Principles
OSMA brief: ‘pregnant people’ deserve ‘abortion care’
The Oklahoma State Medical Association (OSMA) has joined an amici curiae brief calling for Oklahoma’s abortion laws to be struck down, declaring those restrictions violate the Oklahoma Constitution’s guarantee of the “right to life.”Ray Carter | September 28, 2022
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Budget & Tax, Family & Community
OCPA praises legislative effort to protect children and families
OCPA praises legislative effort to protect children and familiesJonathan Small | September 27, 2022
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Health Care, Family & Community
Restriction sought on puberty blockers, trans surgeries
Oklahoma lawmakers will consider legislation this week that restricts funding to state entities that provide puberty blockers or referrals for transgender surgery to children.Ray Carter | September 27, 2022
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Budget & Tax
What’s in OKC schools’ massive bond package?
A property tax increase is on the ballot for residents of the Oklahoma City School District.Trent England | September 27, 2022
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Budget & Tax, Family & Community
Oklahoma to fund transgender procedures on kids?
Even as Tennessee’s governor has called for an investigation of a Vanderbilt clinic performing double mastectomies on adolescent girls, Oklahoma is poised to indirectly fund an OU hospital providing and abetting similar “transgender” services.Ray Carter | September 26, 2022
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Education, Family & Community
‘Experts’ to parents: Don’t believe your own lying eyes
Parents are often told they should rely on the expertise and ethics of educational professionals. But is that always wise?Brandon Dutcher & Trent England | September 24, 2022
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Education
Oklahoma testing results remain well below pre-pandemic norm
Despite record-high levels of funding, a large majority of Oklahoma students in all grades and subjects are not proficient in academic performance.Ray Carter | September 23, 2022
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Education
$5,000 pay raise an indirect bailout of mismanaged schools?
Members of the Oklahoma State Board of Education have approved a budget request developed by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister that calls for giving teachers another $5,000 raise on top of the $7,200 in combined average raises provided since 2018.Ray Carter | September 22, 2022
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Higher Education
OU leader bashes CRT law
An official at the University of Oklahoma says a state law that bans teaching students that “an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist” represents a “barrier” for OU officials and has created a “chilling effect” on “research” conducted by professors.Ray Carter | September 21, 2022