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.
Tag: Oklahoma Watch
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.
Posted inNews
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.
Posted inGovernment
This Tulsan’s rent-to-own experience highlights a lack of tenant protections
More than 20 people, including two children, sat restlessly in Special Judge Tamara Childers’ Rogers County Courtroom awaiting roll call for eviction court to begin.
Posted inGovernment
Native American leaders are furious with Trump’s tribal education shakeup
The Trump administration’s recent moves to dismantle the Department of Education have left Native American leaders feeling frustrated and unheard as several tribal education projects are caught in limbo between federal agencies.
Posted inSchools & Families
From top half to near last: How Oklahoma’s schools lost three decades of ground and what can be learned from Mississippi
On nearly every important measure of academic success, Oklahoma now sits at the bottom.