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What exactly is “School Choice”? Our new paper explains.

A new brief from Advance Oklahoma’s Kids (AOK) - surveys the educational landscape in Oklahoma and finds a full menu of public and private school options available alongside traditional neighborhood schools. The informational brief is meant to help parents, policymakers, and advocates better understand the varieties of school choice and how they are administered and governed.

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Equity in Outcomes Colleen McCarty Equity in Outcomes Colleen McCarty

Private School Tax Credits: Bad in Principle, Worse in Practice?

Oklahoma taxpayers will be allocating $150 million - $250 million every year to fund private schools that are not subject to the same rules and expectations as public schools.

Dr. David Blatt with Oklahoma Appleseed explains the concerns with the way the parental tax credit law - HB 1934 (Oklahoma private school tax vouchers) is written and the proposed rules that will implement the law.

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