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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss State Superintendent Ryan Walters finally testifying before lawmakers during a House Appropriations & Budget Committee, the House passing a tax credit voucher bill for private and home school families while rejecting a teacher pay raise, and more.
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House Speaker Charles McCall moved to hold the HB1934, meaning it won’t be sent to Governor Kevin Stitt yet. That gives the House some leverage to negotiate on the Senate’s newly amended version of the other big education bill — House Bill 2672.
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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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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses the censure of Rep. Dean Davis (R-Broken Arrow) after he was arrested on charges of public intoxication and the State Senate amending and passing education bills from the House causing a stalemate between the chambers.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses bill to require legislative oversight of State Superintendent Ryan Walters, State House leadership education priorities and more.
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At the end of January, Oklahoma’s new Attorney General, Gentner Drummond, announced he would change course on a high-profile debacle involving Secretary of Education and now State Superintendent Ryan Walters — and lots of federal money.
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The Oklahoma House of Representatives unveiled its legislative priorities for education Thursday, and it’s got two main objectives: give public schools a $500 million funding increase and give parents tax credits to send their kids to private schools.
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Federal auditors found problems with Oklahoma’s COVID-19 relief programs for students. It’s causing delays in spending additional funds totalling nearly $18 million.
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Oklahoma lawmakers took a deep dive into the state's complicated education funding formula Tuesday morning. Find out what they had to say from a spending evaluation by the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency.
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Federal auditors have recommended clawing back hundreds of thousands of dollars disbursed by Gov. Kevin Stitt as part of federally funded coronavirus relief grants.