StateImpact Oklahoma
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New data shows Tulsa County’s teen birth rate has declined by 67% from 2009 to 2022.
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Lawsuits against opioid distributors have materialized into an initial payout of $23 million in grants public bodies can apply for to support treatment and prevention.
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Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed an injunction against the Biden Administration to avoid losing an additional year of Title X family planning funds.
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Oklahoma’s total abortion ban doesn’t allow exceptions for rape, and a new paper shows an estimate of how many pregnancies have resulted from rape in the state from July 1, 2022 to Jan. 1, 2024.
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Oklahoma is among 10 states in the U.S. where more than two-thirds of rural hospitals lack labor and delivery services, according to a report from the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform.
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The Department of Education overpaid at least $290,000 in teacher bonuses and is working to claw back the money mere months after it was distributed. Nine teachers have been issued demands for repayment.
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State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced in a news release Tuesday he was appointing Chaya Raichik to the department’s Library Media Advisory Committee. Raichik is behind the far-right X (formerly Twitter) account, LibsofTikTok.
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At least 150 of Shawnee's 30,000 residents are homeless. And because of an ordinance enacted this month, life might be getting a little more difficult for some of the community’s most vulnerable residents.
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In a news release, Walters alleged, without providing evidence, the organizations “push an anti-parent, woke agenda,” work in tandem with “national extremist groups” and “force failed policies into schools.”
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Plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits against the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School will get another chance to disqualify the judge assigned to the case.