Oklahoma Voice

The state will have about $692 million less to spend in crafting a budget for the next fiscal year, a state panel was told Friday.

Gov. Kevin Stitt has appointed a third leader of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services in as many months.

Controversial academic standards for social studies are unenforceable because Oklahoma’s top school board violated state open meeting laws when approving them, the state Supreme Court decided Tuesday.

Western Heights Public Schools spent millions on misguided expenses, overpaid and underpaid employees, and committed a litany of other financial mistakes, according to a state audit released Thursday, four years after outraged district residents and state officials requested it.

A state board tasked with investigating free speech violations on Oklahoma university campuses must have increased enforcement power to properly protect people’s constitutional rights, one advocate said.

Members of a state board overseeing charter schools said they’re running out of patience with a local high school facing allegations of alarmingly low staff levels, weak finances and poor organization.

The Attorney General’s Office settled a lawsuit with CVS Caremark over allegations the company was under reimbursing Oklahoma pharmacies.

For the first time in Epic Charter School’s history, its next superintendent will be a newcomer hired from outside the virtual charter school.

An Oklahoma electric utility company requested that a commissioner on a governing board recuse himself from a case because of an “unacceptable bias.”

The Oklahoma State Department of Education has assigned the state a D grade for academic achievement in public schools but a C in learning growth for the 2024-25 school year.