Oklahoma State Department of Education

Oklahoma students did better on their state tests this spring, but still, fewer than half were proficient or advanced in any single category.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma seeking to prevent the state's new public school bathroom law (SB 615) limiting bathroom access for transgender students from being enforced. The lawsuit (Bridge v. Oklahoma State Department of Education) asserts the new is unconstitutional and violates Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

Several recent changes in Oklahoma education laws have teachers and administrators evaluating legal interpretations and implementing new rules.

A raucous State Board of Education meeting saw emotions bubble up over politics, race and personal accusations amid accreditation of state schools.

In a tense meeting Thursday, Oklahoma’s State Board of Education voted to approve the accreditation of more than 1,000 school sites across the state. But they spent a lot of that time lobbing thinly veiled political attacks at certain schools — and each other.

State schools superintendent Joy Hofmeister said she’s going to recommend Epic Charter Schools be put on accreditation probation.

Oklahoma's State Senate approved legislation to further limit abortion in the state and to prepare for the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of a Mississippi anti-abortion law.

Almost one year after an audit showed financial concerns involving Epic Charter Schools, Governor Kevin Stitt has requested a much larger investigative audit of the State Department of Education

StateImpact discussed masking and a letter from the Biden administration admonishing the state's limit on universal masking in schools.

In his 2021 State of the State Address, Governor Kevin Stitt had one major "ask" for Oklahoma education: changing the state's student transfer rules and…