StateImpact Oklahoma
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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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Opill, which was approved by the FDA last July, is the nation’s first over-the-counter birth control pill, and it’s hitting pharmacy shelves now.
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A local STI testing clinic worries a bill seeking to improve sexually transmitted infection rates will accomplish the exact opposite.
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Oklahoma bill allowing providers to opt out of care if it goes against their beliefs fails committeeA bill that would allow health care workers to withhold services that go against their beliefs failed in the Oklahoma Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
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Any point on the globe can expect to see a total solar eclipse about once every 400 years. This Monday, it’s far southeast Oklahoma’s turn.
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Oklahoma social workers face barriers in getting licensed, a bill could help them get to work fasterOklahoma’s estimated 6,000 licensed social workers are only meeting about two-thirds of the state's mental health needs.
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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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On March 2, the Oklahoma Mothers Milk Bank will celebrate ten years of supporting babies parents with over 1 million ounces of donor milk dispensed since its inception.
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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.