Articles
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Law & Principles
U.S. Supreme Court allows McGirt limit to stand
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition for certiorari, leaving in place an Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals’ decision declaring the high court’s McGirt ruling will not be applied retroactively.Ray Carter | January 11, 2022
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Budget & Tax, Education
Public schools carry over more than $1 billion
Oklahoma public schools carried over more than $1 billion at the end of the 2021 state budget year, marking an increase of more than 50 percent in school savings over the past five years.Ray Carter | January 10, 2022
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Law & Principles
Biden administration argues it can mandate numerous vaccines
Defending its effort to make COVID-19 vaccination, or routine testing, a condition of private-sector employment, the Biden administration told the U.S. Supreme Court that federal law allows the executive branch to unilaterally mandate vaccinations through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration—and said the administration has the authority to require additional vaccinations as well.Ray Carter | January 7, 2022
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Higher Education
Despite vaccines, OSU brings back masks
Even with COVID-19 vaccines readily available, Oklahoma State University intends to require masking in classrooms under certain circumstances.Maddison Farris | January 7, 2022
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Education
Edmond Public Schools to appeal judge’s ruling
Edmond Public Schools plans to appeal a judge’s order that prevents the district from quarantining healthy children as part of its response to COVID-19, even though the judge found that quarantine policy was “irrational,” provided “no benefit” in reducing COVID spread, and imposed “tremendous harm” on students.Ray Carter | January 6, 2022
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Education
OSSBA offers schools lesson that bashes racial equality
A digital resources library offered to Oklahoma schools by the Oklahoma State School Boards Association (OSSBA) includes a “Racial Equity and Justice Initiative Challenge to Change Series” for students as young as pre-K that denounces the concept of racial equality and suggests only white individuals can be racist.Ray Carter | January 5, 2022
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Law & Principles
Judges among those criticizing McGirt ruling
Since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, which effectively declared that nearly half of Oklahoma consisted of Indian reservations, Gov. Kevin Stitt and Attorney General John O’Connor have been among the most high-profile critics of that decision.Ray Carter | January 4, 2022
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Good Government
Poll shows Oklahomans approve of Stitt, not Biden
A newly released poll of registered Oklahoma voters shows a majority approve of Gov. Kevin Stitt, while a supermajority disapprove of President Joe Biden.Ray Carter | December 23, 2021
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Culture & the Family
Oklahoma population growth outpaces nation
Newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows population growth in Oklahoma outpaced most of the nation from July 2020 to July 2021, driven primarily by an influx of people moving to Oklahoma from other states.Ray Carter | December 22, 2021
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Education
As others exit, OSSBA maintains NSBA ties
A majority of state school boards associations have publicly distanced themselves from the National School Boards Association after the national group compared parents to terrorists, and 17 state associations have withdrawn from the NSBA.Ray Carter | December 21, 2021