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Guest
January 12, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Lori Smith is the Chief Financial Officer for Edmond Public Schools. This post is excerpted from an Edmond Public School brochure, “20 Questions (and Answers) about School Finance”.
What is State Aid?
State Aid represents the funds that are appropriated…
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Steve Lewis
January 2, 2015 // 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. You can sign up on his website to receive the Capitol Updates newsletter by email.…
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Ryan Gentzler is an OK Policy Research Fellow, a Master of Public Administration student at the University of Oklahoma, and a Research Associate with the Early Childhood Education Institute.
In October, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities published an…
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By:
Guest
December 10, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Sarah Julian is the Director of Communications for the Oklahoma Public School Resource Center, a non-profit that provides support and resources to the state’s public schools.
Oklahoma’s public schools continue to face difficult financial challenges—this is neither new nor surprising.…
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This post is by OK Policy intern Dakota States. Dakota is a recent graduate of Oklahoma State University, where he studied political science, environmental sociology, and screen studies.
A common stereotype of high school civics is a teacher who’d rather…
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By:
Steve Lewis
November 26, 2014 // 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. You can sign up on his website to receive the Capitol Updates newsletter by email.…
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By:
Gene Perry
October 16, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Last year, Oklahoma had the dubious honor of having made the deepest cuts to school funding in the nation since the start of the recession in 2008. Now an update from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows that our…
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By:
Guest
October 10, 2014 // Updated: May 2, 2019
John Waldron is a high school history teacher at Booker T. Washington High School
There is a crisis in Oklahoma education. Here’s the view from the ground.
I teach at one of the finest high schools in Oklahoma – Booker…
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By:
Gene Perry
October 1, 2014 // Updated: January 23, 2023
Almost without fail, any news story related to money for Oklahoma schools will attract commenters bitterly pointing out they thought the lottery was supposed to solve our education funding problems. So why hasn’t the lottery gotten Oklahoma out of the bottom rungs…
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By:
David Blatt
September 11, 2014 // Updated: December 10, 2020
This is an edited version of remarks made to a community form hosted by the Dan Allen Center for Social Justice on “Resegregation of Tulsa Schools” held September 4, 2014. All statistics, along with their sources, are compiled in this…
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