OK: What info are the feds getting on your kids?
By Stacy Martin | Oklahoma Watchdog
OKLAHOMA CITY — Is the federal government trying to pry deeper into the lives of Oklahoma schoolchildren?
An advocate of less government and better education thinks so.
Jennie White, president of Restore Oklahoma Public Education, said it’s not the fact that federal government wants to collect data on education that’s the problem. It’s that she [...]
OK: Economist calls on Congress to head off possible financial crisis
By Stacy Martin | Oklahoma Watchdog
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma economist predicted that the United States is guaranteed a renewed, financial Armageddon after next month’s presidential election if the wrong economic decisions are made by policymakers.
“There is just so much uncertainty. Not just with respect to the outcome of the election, but about whether Congress is [...]
OK: Labor chief determined to let union cats out of bag
By Stacy Martin | Oklahoma Watchdog
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s labor commissioner wants to free the state from collecting public union and employee association dues.
Labor Commissioner Mark Costello said the practice makes Oklahoma the “bagman” for public unions to fund potentially budget-sucking political agendas, adding the practice simply makes it easier for unions to bleed taxpayers for ever-increasing costs.
Costello [...]
OK: State students failing despite throwing cash into education
By Stacy Martin | Oklahoma Watchdog
OKLAHOMA CITY — Despite school spending increases during the past decade, Oklahoma ranks among the nation’s four the slowest states for closing student achievement gap,, a Harvard study shows.
The study was conducted by Harvard researchers over a period of nearly two years from 2009 to 2011. This part focused on the [...]
OK: Teachers union dumps its ‘common ground’ lobbyist
By Stacy Martin | Oklahoma Watchdog
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s largest teacher’s union, the Oklahoma Education Association, recently forced out lobbyist Daniela Newville because her lobbying style was inconsistent with union’s aggressive, liberal politics, says a top state education department official.
“They forced her out because she had developed good relationships with both sides of the aisle,” said Joel Robison, [...]
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