Oklahoma Education

In response to a demand from a federal judge over whether the Oklahoma State Board of Education may have violated a federal injunction when it revoked the certificate of a former Norman teacher, it handed over the teacher’s revocation order Thursday.

A new charter school is headed to Blanchard after the Statewide Charter School Board voted unanimously Monday to allow The Academies of Oklahoma to expand to its third site next fall.

Dozens of school district superintendents across the state say they will not change their instructional practices to accommodate State Superintendent Ryan Walters’ classroom Bible directive.

School districts across the state received packages Wednesday that claimed to be from the State Department of Education and contained 80 pages of Biblical lore, as well as a cover letter saying the package was a Supplemental Supervisory Document.

Thursday, two years after former Norman High School English teacher Summer Boismier shared a QR code with students to the Brooklyn Public Library’s website, the State Board of Education revoked her teaching certificate.

At Thursday’s State Board of Education meeting, the board decided to wait on taking a recent attorney general opinion about executive sessions to court for review, saying it needed more time to digest.

The Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board voted unanimously Monday to rescind the contract for what would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious school, the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School.

The Office of the Attorney General said in a statement it will look into the State Board of Education’s actions regarding executive session admittance for lawmakers at Wednesday’s board meeting.

Since State Superintendent Ryan Walters’ directive requiring the incorporation of the Bible in Oklahoma classrooms in June, school districts have been questioning the superintendent’s legal authority to mandate the instructional materials.

“Summer slide” is the phenomenon of students losing ground academically during the summer break.