Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 54, No. 20, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Page: 4 of 32
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County help needed for fire protection
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Kern urges opposition to “Common Core” standards
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GUEST COLUMN
By Dustin Hughes
Managing Editor
dustinh@sandspringsleader.com
From Eagle reports
news@mannfordeagle. com
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ated costs for the state. Ac-
cording to studies she cited,
the projected unfunded cost
to California is projected to be
$1.6 billion, Washington state is
expected to spend an additional
$2.1 million, and Missouri may
reportedly have to spend $750
million. White said Texas re-
jected adopting the standards
due in part to an associated es-
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Kern said the study demon-
strates that Oklahoma should
not adopt the national educa-
tion standards.
“I am puzzled that our Repub-
lican Superintendent of Public
Instruction and many Oklaho-
ma Republican state represen-
tatives are against Obama Care
but seem to have no problem
with Obama education,” Kern
said. “Both are a tremendous
overreach of the federal gov-
ernment.”
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way to equitably fund
rural fire departments,
it must fall the the coun-
ty to see that cities’
budgets aren’t drained
fighting county battles.
The county should work
out a way to reimburse
area departments for
calls outside city limits.
Creek County ought to
help Mannford out fi-
nancially, just as Mann-
ford helped Creek Coun-
ty when the fires were
burning.
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that will have to be followed
100 percent. Supporters note
the federal government will al-
low states to add 15 percent of
their own standards to meet
our state’s needs. How gracious
of them to give us a whole 15
percent. Would Oklahomans be
thrilled if the federal govern-
ment allowed us to only keep 15
percent of the money we earn?
I don’t think so.”
Kern recently led a study ex-
amining potential adoption of
“common core” standards. At
that meeting, Lindsey M. Burke,
senior policy analyst for educa-
tion at the Heritage Foundation,
urged lawmakers to oppose the
federal standards.
“While many experts now ex-
amine the federal track record
on education and conclude
that decentralization - not fur-
ther federal control - is more
likely to Improve outcomes, the
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Many of the wildfires
were fought in Mann-
ford Fire Department’s
ICSpUrSE arca, •ut not
inside city limits. Man-
nford’s fire protection
area is about 90 square
miles. That’s a lot of
protection the city gives
away for free. It would
be like the local police
handling a large chunk
of Creek County Sher-
iff’s Office calls.
Of course, the fire-
fighters want to help,
and the city wants to
help by providing fire
protection to as many
people as possible. In
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OKLAHOMA CITY - State Rep.
Sally Kern said today that law-
makers should oppose adoption
of “common core” academic stan-
dards to prevent greater federal
encroachment into state issues.
“The federal government has
a horrible record of managing
programs on the federal level
yet many conservatives, in their
rush to reform education, now
think that putting the federal
government in charge of educa-
tion will improve it,” said Kern,
an Oklahoma City Republican
who is a former public school
teacher. “Two key Republican
principles are local control and
limited government. Now we
want to turn education over to
the federal government to es-
tablish common core standards
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Obama administration has not
concluded that the federal role
in education has failed,” Burke
said in a prepared statement.
“Instead of supporting states
as laboratories of reform, the
administration has coerced
states into the standardization
of content, pushing a one-size-
fits-all approach to standards
and tests.”
She warned lawmakers that
the proposed “common core”
standards are not rigorous,
particularly in the area of math-
ematics.
Jennie White, president of
Restore Oklahoma Public Edu-
cation, also urged lawmakers
to reject the standards, saying
they would effectively direct
curriculum choices in all state
schools.
White also predicted imple-
mentation of the standards
would have significant associ-
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a Mannford taxpayer primary reason govern-
should foot the bill for ment exists.
service outside the city. Unless and until the
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This scorching sum-
mer has been tough on
everyone, none so much
as those who’ve had to
deal with the seemingly
ever-present wildfires.
Combine record-high
heat and record-low
rainfall, and the area
surrounding Mannford
was a tinderbox.
That put a strain on
the city’s firefighters,
and now the town is
feeling that in the pock-
etbook.
most cases, Mannford’s
firefighters can get to a
scene out of city limits
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quicker than an outside
agency.
Still, the county ought
not rely on the gener-
osity of Mannford, and
reimburse the town for
the calls it goes on.
The story is the same
for other town fire de-
partments nearby.
Town Administrator
Mike Nunneley said that
model is not fair to Man-
nford’s taxpayers.
He's quite right.
There’s no reason
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tive, scaling back the
fire protection district
to only the city limits,
would put a lot of in-
nocent people at risk.
Just because someone
doesn’t live in city limits
doesn’t mean their lives
should be endangered.
Fire protection is the
sort of thing that de-
mands the attention of
government at all levels
- local, county, state and
federal. Protection of
life and property is the
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Hughes, Dustin. Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 54, No. 20, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 19, 2011, newspaper, October 19, 2011; Springfield, Missouri. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1949709/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 21, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Keystone Crossroads Historical Society.