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Next Thursday, the State Board of Education will consider changing the accreditation status of the state’s largest school district, Tulsa Public Schools. This comes after over a year of remarks from State Superintendent Ryan Walters targeting the district.
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Oklahoma’s statewide virtual charter school board voted Monday to hire legal representation from an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center labels as a hate group.
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House Speaker Charles McCall moved to hold the HB1934, meaning it won’t be sent to Governor Kevin Stitt yet. That gives the House some leverage to negotiate on the Senate’s newly amended version of the other big education bill — House Bill 2672.
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Even though funding measures advocated for by 2018 Oklahoma Teacher Walkout participants were stymied largely by Republican lawmakers, Oklahoma’s GOP is now authoring record-level education funding measures that include teacher raises, along with a slew of labor rights bills for educators. But the funding bills are far from a done deal — in fact, due to a disagreement in how those bills should operate, there could be no deal at all.
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There’s a massive amount of new money on the table for Oklahoma public education this legislative session, but lawmakers are still deciding whose funding plan will win out: the Senate’s, the House’s, a combination of both — or even neither.
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The Oklahoma House of Representatives unveiled its legislative priorities for education Thursday, and it’s got two main objectives: give public schools a $500 million funding increase and give parents tax credits to send their kids to private schools.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is hoping for big education reforms during this year’s legislative session.
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Oklahoma City Public Schools predicts it will lose millions of dollars after the State Board of Education adopted a resolution to equally fund traditional…
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Lindy Renbarger had to reinvent everything.The principal of Calumet Elementary is accustomed to doing it all. In her decade at the helm of the school with…
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There will be no school report cards this year, one of many disruptions caused by COVID-19. That’s because the grades rely significantly on student test…