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State Superintendent Ryan Walters, the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education are named in a lawsuit alleging state anti-bullying laws were not adequately enforced.
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The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted to table much of its agenda at Thursday’s meeting, saying it was uncomfortable voting due to a sudden change in the board’s legal counsel, affected by State Attorney General Gentner Drummond.
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At Thursday’s State Board of Education meeting, State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced in his annual budget proposal $3 million was already being spent on classroom Bibles, and the board voted to ask the legislature for an additional $3 million.
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The requirement for monthly reports from TPS stemmed from a fight over the district’s 2023 accreditation.
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The OSDE board considered a motion to end the regular in-person reporting to the state. A TPS official wants them to end now.
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The Office of the Attorney General said in a statement it will look into the State Board of Education’s actions regarding executive session admittance for lawmakers at Wednesday’s board meeting.
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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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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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KWGS' Max Bryan and StateImpact’s Beth Wallis have this update on how Tulsa Public Schools’ state-mandated improvement plan is going so far and the work that lies ahead.
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The State Board of Education is weighing a proposed administrative rule that would require in-person attendance for alternative education schools. And for Insight School of Oklahoma — the state’s only all-virtual, alternative education charter school — that could spell disaster.