Category Archives: State

Bad Instruction Prompts Lawsuit

By Jonathan Small

One of the lower-key victories of the 2024 Oklahoma legislative session was passage of Senate Bill 362, which stated that Oklahoma public-school teachers “shall be prohibited from using the three-cueing system model of teaching students to read” starting in the 2025-2026 school year.

Under the three-cueing method, students are encouraged to guess words based on associated pictures and context, and to memorize entire words, rather than learn to sound them out phonetically.

APMreports has noted “that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked” three-cueing, while ExcelinEd in Action noted the three-cueing system “can be boiled down to this: Teachers using this method instruct students to guess.”

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OK Political Party Accountability Bill

By David Arnett

Political parties will be required to honor the will of their electorate or bear the cost when House Bill 1010, filed this week by Rep. Molly Jenkins, R-Coyle, becomes law.

Jenkins filed HB1010 in response to actions by a small group of elite National Democrat Party power brokers after they removed the candidate chosen in the March Oklahoma Democrat presidential preferential primary from the ballot.

Jenkins’ proposal would require political parties to honor the will of their voters or reimburse taxpayers for the cost of the election. An Oklahoma law requiring political accountability.

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Gov. Stitt’s Pointless ‘Green’ Energy Plans

By Jenni White

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt recently posted a picture of himself happily seated at a table in the governor’s mansion with Ambassador of Denmark to the United States Jesper Møller Sørensen, telling Oklahomans how he has “just signed a historic memorandum of understanding between Denmark and Oklahoma” for “reliable” energy for both “communities.”

The preamble of the memo says Oklahoma is being “leveraged” — that Oklahoma will be transformed using cutting-edge European “green energy” technologies. The official press release from the governor’s office is even more fawning.

Photo: Official Twitter account of Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt.
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National Summit on Education

By Staff Report

Oklahoma State Senator Adam Pugh, R-Edmond, chair of the Senate Education Committee, welcomed Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders today at the National Summit on Education, hosted by ExcelinEd in Oklahoma City. 

The event, running from Nov. 13 to 15, brought together policymakers, educators and thought leaders to discuss transformative strategies for improving education nationwide.

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AG Drummond: “Reject Clemency”

By David Arnett

In a press release today, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board to reject clemency for a child sexual predator and murderer who committed one of the most depraved and gruesome crimes in Oklahoma history.

Kevin Ray Underwood is scheduled to be executed Dec. 19 for the attack and murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin, who resided next door to him in Purcell. Underwood planned the murder over the course of several months, scheming to abduct, rape and kill the innocent fifth-grader… then he give in to his fantasies of cannibalism.

Photo: The Purcell Register
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