Along with all of their other budget challenges, lawmakers this session will need to allocate an additional $10.1 million for the Education Lottery Trust Fund as the result of a determination made last month that lottery funds had been used…
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Guest
March 13, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Elizabeth Smith, Ph.D., is the planning director for the Yale National Initiative at the University of Tulsa, a partnership between TU, Tulsa Public Schools, and Yale University to strengthen teaching in Tulsa schools.
“The Legislature shall establish and maintain a…
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Maggie Den Harder is an intern with Oklahoma Policy Institute and a Masters of Public Administration student at the University of Oklahoma – Tulsa.
Experts agree that a healthy breakfast is crucial for children to grow and learn. However, in…
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By:
Gene Perry
March 1, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2019
If there’s one thing Oklahoma citizens and political leaders of both major parties agree on, it’s that our state’s teachers need a raise. Republican leaders in the House and the Senate both say a teacher raise is at the top of their…
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Steve Lewis
February 24, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Steve Lewis served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1989-1991. He currently practices law in Tulsa and represents clients at the Capitol.
There are couple of big issues starting their trek through the legislative process, and the…
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Gene Perry
February 9, 2017 // Updated: May 2, 2019
At OK Policy, our core mission is to encourage state policy changes that ensure responsible funding of public services and expanded opportunity for all Oklahomans. To that end, we’ve identified a number of policies as top priorities in Oklahoma’s 2017 legislative session.
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Background
Oklahoma’s average teacher pay and benefits is among the very lowest in the nation and well below surrounding states. This noncompetitive pay damages…
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Gene Perry
November 8, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Oklahoma Policy Institute released the following statement on the failure of SQ 779, the sales tax increase for education:
SQ 779 did not reach majority support even though Oklahomans widely acknowledge that we must improve school funding. The results of this…
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By:
Guest
November 3, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The author of this post, a Tulsa-born social worker and parent of three children in the public school system, asked to remain anonymous
We hear a lot about the cuts to public programs that have been made in recent years as a result of…
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David Blatt
November 1, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
A central claim being made by opponents of State Question 779, the ballot measure that would increase the sales tax by one percentage point to boost funding for education, is that less than half the money will go to raise…
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