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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.
The Norman rhetorical shouting match was only the opening round in what will be a determined effort to both implement and resist the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority’s recently announced $5 billion, 15 years long ACCESS plan to, among other major projects, significantly expand the network of turnpikes surrounding the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.
Particularly in times of crisis, we need to focus on areas of agreement and take care of our most pressing problems before dealing with those questions that divide us.
Jim Inhofe has held public office, including service in both houses of the state and national legislature, as well as a stint as mayor of Tulsa, for over half a century.