by Benjamin Lepak | Aug 31, 2020 | Blog
The hypocrisy of the Soviet Union’s pretense of egalitarianism was well known enough to be the subject of mockery and parody. Ronald Reagan never tired of the jokes. Soviet communism espoused equality, but the reality is that party apparatchiks and government...
by Benjamin Lepak | Aug 26, 2020 | Legal, Research
Walking Out on School Kids: How Oklahoma Law Enabled the 2018 Teacher Strike, And How to Prevent the Next One Authors Ben Lepak Abstract This paper looks at the causes of the 2018 teacher walkout, and offers solutions for preventing another one. Summary PDF Full...
by Benjamin Lepak | Aug 26, 2020 | Blog
Cheered on by teachers’ unions, State Secretary of Education Joy Hoffmeister recently proposed a statewide Covid plan that would have seen schools in 39 of Oklahoma’s 77 counties stop in-person instruction if those counties experienced just 3 Covid diagnoses. Only 3...
by Mike Davis | Aug 24, 2020 | Blog
In plain English this time. What is the right way to think about the risk of Covid? About three percent of people who get Covid are dying from it. That number drops precipitously for those outside a few well-defined risk groups (namely older adults and those with...
by Byron Schlomach | Aug 19, 2020 | Blog
I know. Sometimes we sound like a broken record. ANOTHER blog about licensing? Long-term care administration licensing? Seriously? Does this theme not get old? Well, yeah, it’s old. We wish we could stop writing about what may very well be the stupidest, most onerous,...
