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Articles by Deborah Campbell
Health Clinic In The Schoolhouse?
Most Oklahomans have never been told that our public schools now face a major shift in how student services are defined and delivered. Two very different systems—school-based services and School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs)—are being discussed as if they are the same thing. THEY ARE NOT. Misunderstanding the difference has serious consequences for families, schools, and children. There is also an important distinction within Oklahoma’s Medicaid system itself.
Schools Teach. Health Providers Treat.
Analysis: School-based healthcare is no longer limited to services traditionally connected to special education. Oklahoma already permits certain health-related and rehabilitative services through schools, while federal policy is encouraging states to expand school-based Medicaid and behavioral-health services. At the same time, school-based health centers can introduce a broader healthcare-delivery operation into a public school. The question is not whether children need healthcare. They do.
How Hissom’s Teachers Escaped
The Paradox of Silence: Hissom’s Teachers, Including Current Candidate for Oklahoma Superintendent Dr. Robert Franklin, Escaped Accountability When federal investigators exposed the depravity of the Hissom Memorial Center in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, the public faced an unsettling truth. In 1987, Hissom Memoral Center was legally condemned by U.S. District Judge James O.
Stephen Maher on News in Polarized Times
Times are tough for Canadian journalists: public mistrust and misinformation, scant job security, brutal social media, and American-made news that sucks up all the air. And while U.S. politics grows dangerously polarized, Canadians are also sorting into hostile camps.
Public School Parent Warning Part 2
Editor’s Note: This story has expanded from when we first published it in June of this year. Additional warnings have been included. Parental concerns have grown as the school systems in Oklahoma hide information and presume even more authority over the precious young lives in their part-time care. Leftists hate the sovereign family. Parents, please proceed with caution when the Oklahoma K-12 schools reconvene for the 2025-2026 school year in August.
Public School Parent Warning
Parents, please proceed with caution when the Oklahoma K-12 schools reconvene for the 2025-2026 school year in August. In June 2025, the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Instruction Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) completed the unlawful expansion of school-based services, into Medicaid healthcare clinics, for ALL students. Public School based primary healthcare is not education.
Does Sup. Walters Deserve Election?
For reelection as State Superintendent of Education or as Oklahoma Governor, has Ryan Walters earned reelection or promotion? This is a critical question Oklahoma voters decide in 2026. Ryan Walters is in a unique candidate position, specifically, running for re-election as state superintendent of instruction or candidate for governor. This begs the question, does Ryan Walters merit a second term as state superintendent of education? Does Ryan Walters deserve to become the next governor of Oklahoma?
Why We Need a ‘Slow Water’ Movement
In her groundbreaking book Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge, environmental journalist and National Geographic Explorer Erica Gies observes, “If water were a category in a game of rock, paper, scissors, water would beat them all every time.” Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners CONTEST: Win Festival Passes to VIFF One lucky Tyee reader will win two full passes to this year's festival, with a value of $450 each.
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You Are Being Watched. Now What?
Now that we know we're being spied on, what are we going to do about it? So asks Ronald Deibert, one of Canada's leading cybersurveillance experts and director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto.
Andrew Nikiforuk on Big Energy: An Interview
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The Access to Information Act was supposed to get government documents into the hands of Canadians. Instead, it has created a state in which there are often no documents to get.
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