StateImpact Oklahoma
StateImpact Oklahoma reports on education, health, environment, and the intersection of government and everyday Oklahomans. It's a reporting project and collaboration of KWGS, KGOU, KOSU and KCCU, with broadcasts heard on NPR Member stations.
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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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The ex-police officer is the first in the nation to face harsher penalties under the 2022 reauthorization of the original act.
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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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Long-distance placements make it more difficult for youths in foster care to see their siblings and hinder parents who are working to reunite with their children.
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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.
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The drug is the go-to treatment for syphilis and the only one recommended for pregnant people. But a shortage of the injectable drug has prompted some public health agencies to ration it.
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A bill advanced in the Oklahoma Legislature that would require sixth through twelfth grade schools to provide free menstrual products.
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The State Board of Education unanimously approved 15 new or amended administrative rules at its Thursday meeting.