Basing your development strategy on attracting huge employers is the social equivalent of playing the lottery to fund your retirement – you may not lose much money, but don’t count on hitting the jackpot to secure your future.
While Gov. Kevin Stitt is riding ahead in the polls, his governing style has alienated several powerful constituencies, resulting in multiple challengers from the left, right, and center.
Like the private sector, we must transition public employees to the defined contribution model, where your retirement benefits are directly funded by the investment returns on the contributions made by employees and the employer.
If the tests fulfilled their purpose, why have the significant majority of the nation’s leading colleges and universities, in the last two years, made submitting the test scores optional?
While there are many weeks left in the state legislative session, providing a modicum of hope that a school choice expansion bill may still emerge, last week’s defeat of Senate President Pro Tem Greg Treat’s proposed plan to empower families to educate their children as they choose cannot help but disappoint those who seek to better the lives of future generations of Oklahomans.