Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism The pandemic-related decision to provide online-only instruction at 7.5 percent of Oklahoma school districts, rather than in-class teaching, has…
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Ray Carter, OCPAThink.org In 2018, lawmakers voted to raise taxes by roughly $600 million with a significant share of that money going to teacher pay…
Ray Carter, OCPA Center for Independent Journalism The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, whose members owned Black slaves and fought on the side of the Confederacy…
OCPAThink.org Responding to Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, Jonathan Small, president of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, issued…
Patrick B. McGuigan Oklahoma’s leading free market “think tank” – the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) – has affirmed the focus and purpose…
Ray Carter, OCPA Center for Independent Journalism Under Oklahoma’s school grading system, a measure of “chronic absenteeism” is one of the factors included in…
Ray Carter, OCPA Center for Independent Journalism During the 2018-2019 school year, four public school districts in Oklahoma hired contract lobbyists. In addition…
Ray Carter, Center for Independent Journalism The debate over renegotiation of Oklahoma’s gaming compacts with tribal governments has centered on the rates paid by…
Ray Carter, OCPA Center for Independent Journalism In 2018, officials with the Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma…
By Ray Carter When news broke that the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation had filed a search warrant accusing Epic Charter Schools of receiving…