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“Summer slide” is the phenomenon of students losing ground academically during the summer break.
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State Superintendent Ryan Walters is looking to prominent conservatives to head up a committee reviewing academic standards for social studies education — calling for a “complete overhaul” of the current standards.
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The University of Oklahoma is making more big changes to programs in response to Gov. Kevin Stitt’s executive order prohibiting state funding for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives — this time axing a decades-old women’s leadership program.
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Sulphur Public Schools is working to get students back into the classroom later this week after Saturday night’s deadly tornado outbreak. The storm destroyed its bus fleet, but it’s working with nearby schools to find transportation for the remainder of the school year.
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A bill that would prohibit schools from using corporal punishment on children with certain disabilities passed the Oklahoma Senate Tuesday.
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In Tulsa, there are about 450 after-school programs at risk of shrinking to just 75 once ESSER funds are gone.
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Lawmakers are at the halfway point in this year’s legislative session, and just a fraction of the education bills filed at the top of the session have survived big legislative deadlines.
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Every year, the organization Freedom of Information Oklahoma awards those who promote access and awareness of open records and open government, but it also saves one award recognizing a lack of transparency — the Black Hole Award. This year’s Black Hole Award recipient is State Superintendent Ryan Walters.
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In a special education classroom at Tulsa Public Schools’ Skelly Elementary, Kathleen Bitson presses colored blocks into a student’s hand, counting aloud as she picks up each one.
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Sarah Lucas, secretary of the Oklahoma Parent Legislative Advocacy Coalition, set out plates of apple pie slices on a red, white and blue table while public school supporters filed into a room at the Oklahoma Capitol building Wednesday.