Blake Cummings

Education should be our number one priority. When you are 50th, or 47th, or whatever low ranking we are this month, you have nowhere to go but up. For too long, we haven’t gone anywhere. Our funding per student is very low compared to just about any state not named New Mexico. We have underpaid teachers, smart students who need more options to excel, and school buildings that need updating. But most importantly, we need a Legislature to want to fix our bottom 5 rankings. Nobody wants higher...

Artificial Intelligence can be useful in many ways, but not without safeguards. Remember the Terminator movies? The US government decided that our military would be run by an artificial intelligence network to deploy and control our military weapons. This “AI” was called Skynet. Skynet then took over complete control of all weapons without adequate safeguards to override any choices that would endanger humanity. Skynet came to see humanity as a threat to its survival. It launched a global...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Oklahoma is ranked 50th in Public Education. Or 49th, as of the most recent state comparison survey. Being 50th, 49th, 48th, etc., doesn’t really matter, low is low. What matters is that for the last 15 years, we have been sliding down to the bottom or near the bottom when you compare our public education to that of the other states in the Union. So, we now have a reputation as a state that doesn’t prioritize education in our budget. When an...