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A bus parks outside Caney Valley High School on a winter day in Ramona, Oklahoma. The school district is facing a half-million-dollar budget shortfall.

Miscalculation leaves rural Oklahoma school district scrambling to close budget gap

Sierra Pfeifer

A rural Northeast Oklahoma school district is scrambling to address a nearly half-million-dollar shortfall after administrators failed to update their budget.

A QR code that points users toward a resource from the Brooklyn Public Library in New York that provides digital access to its collection — particularly books that may be banned elsewhere.

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Former Norman teacher targeted by Ryan Walters over QR code sues him for defamation, libel

Beth Wallis

A former Norman Public Schools teacher is suing State Superintendent Ryan Walters for defamation and other allegations.

State Schools Superintendent Ryan Walters has called for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every Oklahoma classroom

What about the whole "separation of church and state" thing?

"A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession" (Encore)

"This deeply researched and impressive study brings home the fact that America underinvests in the education of its children -- and that teachers step in to fill the gaps." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession"

"This deeply researched and impressive study brings home the fact that America underinvests in the education of its children -- and that teachers step in to fill the gaps." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth" (Encore)

A professor at the Georgetown University Law Center examines the foundations of racist policing in America

"Learning America: One Woman's Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children"

"[The author is] an influential educational leader and activist.... [This is] an impassioned, penetrating critique and inspiring model for progress." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Learning America: One Woman's Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children"

"[The author is] an influential educational leader and activist.... [This is] an impassioned, penetrating critique and inspiring model for progress." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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"A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year before College" (Encore)

Rich Fisher

(Note: This interview originally aired back in September.) Our guest is the writer Jeff Hobbs, whose latest book closely follows four Los Angeles high…

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Stitt Signs Bills To Implement Major Education Policy Reforms He Requested

Matt Trotter

Gov. Kevin Stitt wasted no time in signing bills to implement major education policy reforms he asked for in February during his state of the state…