News You Can Use
- Law professor Andrew Spiropoulos, OCPA’s Milton Friedman Distinguished Fellow, says this is no time to go wobbly on Oklahoma tax cuts — and visitors from Missouri and Kansas agree.
- 12 percent of U.S. millionaires are educators(that’s more than entrepreneurs, business owners, or executives).
- Jenks superintendent Kirby Lehman earns a quarter-million dollars a year to oversee a school district which was recently placed on the federal needs-improvement list.
- 2,086 people in Oklahoma’s higher-education system are paid six-figure salaries. For example, the president of Cameron University, a four-year university from which only 5.4% of the students graduate in four years, was paid a third of a million dollars in 2010.
- The new face of public education: “It’s not public or private. It’s not liberal or conservative. It’s pragmatic.”
