Education is more important than immigration

According to Latino voters.

Journalist says Henry Scholarships 'may be one of the most important policy issues I've ever covered'

Oklahoma City journalist Patrick McGuigan, editor of CapitolBeatOK, is spotlighted in the May 2012 issue of Franklin Center News. McGuigan was asked, "What’s the most important or interesting story you’ve worked on for CapitolBeatOK?" McGuigan pointed to a series of news stories

focused on the year-long process that led to enactment of a scholarship program allowing special needs/special education students to access the best educational setting for their needs, including in private settings. In terms of substantive policy, this may be one of the most important policy issues I've ever covered.

Does school choice reduce crime?

David J. Deming, an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, finds that 

winning a lottery for admission to the school of choice greatly reduces criminal activity, and that the greatest reduction occurs among youth at the highest risk for committing crimes. The impacts persist beyond the initial years of school enrollment, seven years after the school-choice lottery was held.

Foyil teacher arrested on sex crime complaints

"A Foyil Public Schools employee was arrested for an alleged sex crime against a minor," the NewsOn6 reports.

NEA hemorrhaging members

"According to multiple sources within the NEA leadership," Mike Antonucci reports, "the union is reporting a loss of 150,000 members over the past two years, and is projecting a further loss of more than 200,000 members over the next two years."

NEA signs up 10,000 teachers to reelect Obama

The National Education Association (NEA) has enlisted 10,000 of its members to help reelect Barack Obama.

Both of Oklahoma's Presidential Scholars attend schools of choice

Of the three million students graduating from high school this year, 141 have been named Presidential Scholars. Two of them are from Oklahoma, and they both attend schools of choice. (It's nothing new, of course, for students in Oklahoma's schools of choice to excel.)

Presidential Scholar Joseph C. Woodson of Tulsa is homeschooled, and Anna H. Zhao of Edmond attends the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics.

'Social media fueling teacher/student sexual relationships'

"There have been a number of sex scandals involving teachers in Oklahoma this year," FOX 23 reports.

Romney supports D.C. vouchers

"Mr. Romney has the moral and political high ground on vouchers," says The Wall Street Journal.

Tax-credit scholarships need a critical eye

Not a hostile one.

Unionized monopolies are running out of ideas

School-choice works

"School choice is such an objectively beneficial policy," Lindsey Burke writes, "that it's drawing high-profile supporters from both sides of the political divide."

'Oklahoma per-pupil funding comparison omits important data'

The state's largest newspaper brings some badly needed context to the school funding discussion.