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Gene Perry
July 18, 2013 // Updated: July 18, 2013
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Last week, the Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) announced monthly General Revenue (GR) collections for June, bringing Fiscal Year 2013 to a close. While Finance Secretary Preston Doerflinger’s candid assessment of plunging gross production revenues grabbed the headlines,…
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July 16, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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This post was written by OK Policy volunteer Zoraya Hightower. Zoraya completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Tulsa and this fall will begin a Master of Environmental Management at Yale.
America spends more than any other nation on…
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July 15, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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John Thompson is a former Oklahoma historian and inner city teacher who is now an education writer focusing on inner city schools.
The accountability-driven school “reform” movement argues that schools are so broken that the only answer is rapid and…
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This article was originally submitted as an op-ed, which The Oklahoman declined to publish.
A recent report by Oklahoma Policy Institute, “Building Equity: Closing the Opportunity Gap in Oklahoma,” outlines large and persistent gaps in wealth, income, and opportunity between…
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