Higher Education Speech First prevails in fight with OSU
OSU will disband its “Bias Response Team” and make other significant changes. Cherise Trump, executive director of Speech First, hopes other universities will “learn from OSU’s experience that there is a high cost to violating students’ constitutional rights.”
Ray Carter | April 17, 2024 Speech First prevails in fight with OSU Click the headline to read the full article at OCPA. Education One-year delay for Oklahoma school-choice program harms children
One provision of the Henry scholarship program has caused anguish for some Oklahoma students and families. Legislation awaiting a vote in the Oklahoma House of Representatives would fix it.
Ray Carter | April 17, 2024 One-year delay for Oklahoma school-choice program harms children Click the headline to read the full article at OCPA. Judicial Reform JNC process lacks transparency
A flier recently distributed at the Oklahoma Capitol tries, desperately, to convince lawmakers that Oklahoma’s secretive Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC) should be preserved and that Oklahomans will somehow be worse off if we instead adopt the judicial-selection process developed by our nation’s Founding Fathers. But the flier doesn’t pass the laugh test.
Staff | April 17, 2024 JNC process lacks transparency Click the headline to read the full article at OCPA. Prof. Brian Fitzpatrick of Vanderbilt Law School talks to Ryan and Curtis about how Tennessee changed its judicial nominating process and why Oklahoma should do the same. Tennessee Wisdom Click the headline to read the full article at OCPA. Higher Education Putting the ‘boom’ in Boomer
The controversial book “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” is required reading in an OU English course this semester. The book's author has acknowledged that pipeline violence could cause deaths.
Jonathan Small | April 16, 2024 Putting the ‘boom’ in Boomer Click the headline to read the full article at OCPA. |
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