Fear a weak argument against deregulation plan

 
The Oklahoman Editorial
Published: March 22, 2009

W HEN all else fails, resort to fear. That seems to be the idea behind the Oklahoma Education Association ’s visceral opposition to a proposal to free some public schools from a wide range of state mandates.

"What it does is gut the entire process of what public education is about,” Becky Felts , the association’s vice president, said recently. "Schools could lose their counselors. Teache...


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