By: Tyler Parette
December 15, 2015 // Updated: January 13, 2016
By Brian Hardzinski
The hole in next year’s state budget will likely be just over $900 million, Oklahoma Finance Secretary Preston Doerflinger said Tuesday.
State agencies will also likely face mandatory mid-year budget cuts due to the declaration of what’s… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
December 10, 2015 // Updated: December 14, 2015
By Andrea Eger
A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows Oklahoma’s cuts to per-pupil funding for public schools are nearing 25 percent, by far the deepest in the nation since the economic recession struck in… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
December 8, 2015 // Updated: December 14, 2015
By Emily Droege
Holiday cheer may be in the air, but the long-term forecast for the state’s budget looks bleak, according to David Blatt, executive director for the Oklahoma Policy Institute.
Speaking to the Monday Rotary Club, Blatt explained Oklahoma’s… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
December 3, 2015 // Updated: December 14, 2015
By Warren Vieth and Mark Lash
Buried deep in the Oklahoma tax code is a sales tax exemption for railroad spikes. Once it got hammered into place, it never budged.
The tax break was created in 1993 for the benefit… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
November 12, 2015 // Updated: November 16, 2015
By Rick Green
The Oklahoma Supreme Court will examine the constitutionality of an effort to generate millions of dollars for schools through a one-cent increase in the state sales tax.
Until the court resolves a challenge filed by an advocacy… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
November 3, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
On November 5, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) will host Dr. Naneida Lazarte for her lecture “Oklahoma School Readiness Reach-By-Risk Report 2015: Understanding Access to Quality Early Childhood Programs in the Context of Risk for Starting School Unprepared”… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
October 30, 2015 // Updated: November 3, 2015
Health Care for more than a million Oklahomans may become more difficult to access soon, as the state Medicaid agency waits for Federal budget cuts. Cuts that are coming because the state’s economy is seen as being so good but… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
October 28, 2015 // Updated: November 3, 2015
By Phil Cross At statehood, there were more than thousand school districts scattered across the state. Today that number is a little more than 500 and it could shrink more as more schools find it difficult to make ends meet.… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
October 14, 2015 // Updated: October 14, 2015
We’re happy to announce that OK Policy’s legislative liaison, Damario Solomon-Simmons, is receiving the Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Diversity Award from the Oklahoma Bar Association. The award will be presented during the annual Oklahoma Bar Association Diversity Dinner on Thursday,… Read more [More...]
By: Tyler Parette
September 29, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
[Update: During public comments on the ordinance, a large majority of those speaking said that passing it would be a mistake. A final vote is still scheduled for Oct. 13.]
Today the Oklahoma City Council is holding a public hearing… Read more [More...]