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The number of students taking tribal languages has grown by the thousands in public schools
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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.
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Students at Edison Preparatory School protested Israel's bombardment of Gaza, calling on elected officials to stop the violence.
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The Oklahoma Senate Education Committee was scheduled to hear a bill that would have removed authority over school district accreditation decisions from the State Board of Education. But at the end of the committee meeting Tuesday, the bill’s author and chair of the committee sidelined it.
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An Oklahoma Watch investigation last year revealed a pervasive culture of harassment at an elite Oklahoma high school. StateImpact’s Beth Wallis spoke with Jennifer Palmer, the reporter behind the story, about a recent update: the agency responsible for addressing those issues failed to perform required inspections for 16 years.
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Kirby Mackenzie, a librarian at Ellen Ochoa Elementary has been designated Teacher of the Year by Union Public Schools.
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Lawmakers are considering another initiative to incentivize teachers to stay in Oklahoma classrooms that would allow teachers’ children to be eligible for the state’s tuition scholarship program.
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A bill that would incentivize school districts to ban cell phones on campus got one step closer Tuesday to becoming law, but committee members opposing it say it doesn’t go far enough and shouldn’t come with a price tag.
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The state legislature is back in session, and there’s no hotter topic than education policy. StateImpact education reporter Beth Wallis talked with StateImpact managing editor Logan Layden about what to expect from lawmakers in 2024.