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OCPA distinguished fellow Andrew Spiropoulos asks a good question: How were private schools of all kinds able to stay open all year while many public schools (which received millions of federal dollars) refused to open?

This session, many lawmakers have balked at expanding Oklahoma’s successful tax-credit scholarship program for low- and middle-income children, but now appear ready to dump millions more down the burn barrel that is our state’s film-subsidy program. Click here to let your lawmakers know they should NOT be sending even more money to people in Hollywood that despise Oklahoma values.

Members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives have voted to cut Oklahoma’s income-tax rate to a level that will make it one of the lowest in the country.

In a letter sent to Oklahoma’s two U.S. senators, the secretary of the Oklahoma State Election Board warned that an election bill promoted by congressional Democrats guarantees chaos in our elections.

More McGirt fallout...

Critics of the budget agreement have one response: It’s not enough.

Some education officials say a conspiracy of silence kept public schools from teaching about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre for most of a century. That conspiracy apparently involved ignoring Oklahoma History textbooks, which have noted the massacre for decades.

Even with 25% already on Medicaid, enrollment is set to increase significantly beginning later this summer.

A significant school-choice measure has won overwhelming approval from the Oklahoma Senate and is now one vote away from Gov. Kevin Stitt’s desk.

"From a government perspective, should taxpayers be required to pay the salaries of government employees to teach that whites are inherently racist or inherently privileged? I think the answer would be no." Jonathan Small, OCPA President

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