economic and social costs of untreated mental illness and substance use disorders. - The Chamber supports state and local efforts to strengthen Oklahoma’s behavioral health system by increasing the availability of treatment beds and expanding the network of qualified service providers. • Attainable Housing for Families - The Chamber supports data-driven, results- oriented state and local policies that address homelessness through coordinated systems of care and solutions targeting root causes such as mental health, housing access, criminal justice reform, and substance use. - The Chamber also supports legislation that drives public and private investment in attainable, workforce, and mixed-income housing to promote growth and community reinvestment. The Chamber will also oppose policies that would make it more difficult for communities to address homelessness in their area. • Protecting and Improving Incentive Programs - The Chamber supports the Oklahoma Incentive Evaluation Commission (IEC), which was established to make recommendations to the Legislature and governor on which incentive programs are serving their intended
purpose and creating economic/community development. If an incentive program cannot show a positive return to the state, it should be scaled back or repealed. - The Chamber supports re-positioning and broadening the mission of the IEC to require a thorough review be conducted of incentive programs offered by other states. The purpose of this review would be to learn “best practices” to ensure Oklahoma is offering the most effective, up-to-date, and innovative incentives possible.
Education and Workforce Development Priorities • Increasing Learning Capacities of Oklahoma Students
- The Chamber supports providing additional and enhanced learning opportunities that utilize recognized best practices and extended learning opportunities to address student data from Pre-K to Higher Ed student learning loss. It is important to help students catch up by having more time on tasks, including longer school days and additional instructional days. In addition, we are supportive of extended summer learning opportunities and after school programs. A focus on research-based literacy and numeracy programs that work to enable students at all grade levels to improve reading proficiency and comprehension skills through training and additional funding is supported. - Enact legislation requiring all K-12 Local Education Agencies (LEA’s) to adopt high- quality, evidence-based curriculum materials in core subjects (ELA, Mathematics, Science) from a state-approved list.
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