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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced in a Thursday press conference he felt the months-long legislative stalemate over education funding was coming to an end. But, Senate leaders say that’s not the case.
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A bill to give Texas families public funds to avoid integrated schools almost became law in 1957.
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The Oklahoma legislature has been deadlocked for weeks as it hashes out a plan for education funding. StateImpact’s Beth Wallis sat down with The Oklahoman’s education reporter Nuria Martinez-Keel to talk about the events at the Capitol that led up to this moment.
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The Republican chair of the House Higher Education Committee said universities need to be able to offer tenure. But Democratic lawmakers and professors raised concerns that the House version of Senate Bill 18 still does too much to weaken tenure.
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While there have been incremental salary increases in Texas and the U.S., the president of the National Education Association said, they're not keeping pace with inflation and not enough to address the nationwide teacher shortage.
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ChatGPT has students, staff and faculty already thinking about how instructors will adapt their classrooms as the program grows.
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The House budget contains a provision preventing public money to be spent on private schools — but will it stay that way?
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Even though funding measures advocated for by 2018 Oklahoma Teacher Walkout participants were stymied largely by Republican lawmakers, Oklahoma’s GOP is now authoring record-level education funding measures that include teacher raises, along with a slew of labor rights bills for educators. But the funding bills are far from a done deal — in fact, due to a disagreement in how those bills should operate, there could be no deal at all.
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Attorney General Gentner Drummond says the State Board of Education led by State Superintendent Ryan Walters cannot make rules without direction from state lawmakers.
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Two classrooms in Colorado are learning about water by connecting pen pals between two very different towns.