If there were ever a school dedicated to achieving Horace Mann’s dream of making education “the great equalizer,” Harding Charter Preparatory High School would be it. Harding’s mission statement reads, “Provide every student with an academically challenging educational experience through an advanced placement (AP) curriculum, which will prepare students for success at a four-year university.” […]
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Commentary: Ill communication
Last week, University of Oklahoma (OU) officials proved they were ill-prepared to address diversity issues when one crisis management attempt backfired and a seemingly good-intentioned message to women came off as retrograde and condescending. The statements were emblematic of the university’s current leadership vacuum, which is sucking the soul out of my alma mater. On […]
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Chicken Fried News: Political detention
Two bills filed by state Sen. Mark Allen, R-Spiro, take aim at teachers for having the audacity to ask for more funding and become politically active. The bills are retribution for last year’s teacher walkout and subsequent elections that saw educators swept into office and incumbents who came out against the funding largely defeated. In […]
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Reproductive wrongs
In a cultural moment when the societal rights of women to not be subjugated, objectified or otherwise exploited is on people’s minds, Oklahoma lawmakers are attempting to do just that, reducing pregnant women to the status of what state Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, called “hosts.” Senate Bill 195, sponsored by state Senate president pro tempore […]
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Commentary: Carry on
A bill that passed the state House of Representatives last week and is likely to become law will remove permitting and training requirements from the purchase and use of handguns. This legislation is not a solution in search of a problem; it is a problem that will eventually require a solution. On Feb. 13, House […]
