State lawmakers are touting historic education spending levels, but Oklahoma’s per-pupil spending rate is still dead last among surrounding states.
Tag: Oklahoma Watch
Posted inYour Money
Oklahoma’s eviction process is being used as a form of rent collection, data shows
It happens to hundreds of Oklahomans every month. Rent is due on the first, but the paycheck hits their bank account on the sixth.
Posted inEntertainment
As Hollywood loses ground, Oklahoma plays the long game
Across the country, states are competing for film and television projects with increasingly aggressive incentive programs. The result is a high-stakes competition in which emerging markets such as Oklahoma are trying to find a foothold.
Posted inSchools & Families
IRS flags potential excess benefit transactions at Epic Charter Schools, state criminal trial looms
Nearly four years after criminal charges were filed, Epic Charter Schools’ founders are about to learn whether they will be bound over for trial in the state’s massive racketeering and embezzlement case against them.
Posted inGovernment
Choose your own voters: Republican lawmakers send high-stakes ballot initiatives to low-turnout election
Among the state questions that could appear on an August primary runoff ballot are those that could curtail state matching funds for Medicaid expansion, a state question narrowly approved by voters in 2020.
Posted inYour Money
Oklahoma’s housing paradox: Vacant units everywhere, affordable ones nowhere
Across Oklahoma, apartment complexes sit boarded up. Houses deteriorate. Entire properties fall out of the market. At the same time, renters scramble to find anything they can afford.
Posted inGovernment
Fast food, farming and market gambles: How Oklahoma’s congressional delegation got rich
The Oklahoma congressional delegation’s wealth lies not so much in stocks and bonds as it does in real estate and personal business interests that range from consulting firms to agriculture to McDonald’s franchises.
Posted inSchools & Families
Eviction filings push Oklahoma children into chronic absenteeism and academic failure, data shows
Kassandra McNeary and her three children were evicted twice from two separate apartment complexes while trying to escape ongoing physical and mental abuse from the children’s father.
Posted inGovernment
Oklahoma could collect $175 million annually from federal immigration enforcement agreements
ICE will soon deport a Chinese man who called 911 from an icy Oklahoma roadside during January’s snowstorm, despite his fully legal status, his attorney said.
Posted inSchools & Families
Behind the rankings: How WalletHub determined Oklahoma is 50th in education
When the financial services website WalletHub announced its annual list of states’ education systems, Oklahoma’s ranking became instantly quotable by politicians on all sides.
Posted inGovernment
Rep. Kevin Hern appears to have tardy stock disclosures; his office disputes he’s late
A House Ethics Committee calculation tool indicates that at least $4.2 million worth of the Oklahoma congressman’s personal stock trades were made a few days past a federal deadline.
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Oklahoma ranks third in fatal police encounters
Oklahoma has recorded 383 fatal encounters involving police over the past 12 years, consistently ranking among the highest in the nation per capita.