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Run for School Board; filing ends Wednesday

UPDATE Thursday, December 7, 2017: Filing is closed, and here is the final 2018 school board candidate list from the Tulsa County Election Board. Only three of 17 seats will be contested. Shawna Keller, the incumbent from District 4 in the eastern part of the Tulsa school district, has drawn...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 4, 2017 11:11 PM

Stan Minor for Tulsa school board

It's apparent that our public schools are headed in the wrong direction, and money won't fix what's wrong. If a train is going the wrong way on the track, shoveling more coal in the firebox only takes you further away from your goal faster. We must first elect board members...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 6, 2016 2:05 PM

Oklahoma's Common Core Four

National Review has a wonderful history of the effort to pull Oklahoma out of the Common Core curriculum and the four women who spearheaded it. [Jenni] White has spent the past four years telling Parent Teacher Organizations and anyone else who would listen that Oklahoma should not implement Common Core,...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 21, 2014 12:34 AM

Fallin signs Common Core repeal

Good news from the State Capitol this afternoon: Governor Mary Fallin Signs HB 3399 to Repeal and Replace Common Core Standards New Standards will be developed in Oklahoma and Increase Academic Rigor OKLAHOMA CITY--Governor Mary Fallin today signed HB 3399, a bill that replaces the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 5, 2014 5:39 PM

Oklahoma Senate committee passes anti-Common Core bill

On Monday, March 24, 2014, the Oklahoma State Senate's Education Committee unanimously passed a committee substitute for HB 3399, a bill initiated in the State House to repeal Oklahoma's adoption of Common Core national standards. (Click the link for the text of the bill, which shows deletions from current law...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 24, 2014 7:41 PM

Writing curriculum publisher explains problems with Common Core

Common Core is looking more and more like the incandescent light bulb ban, Obamacare, and scores of other experiments in government regulation that drive up costs, drive out small business, and dry up innovation. Andrew Pudewa's life work is to enable students to learn to write clearly and persuasively. His...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 19, 2013 12:48 PM