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Law & Principles
Legislature selects leadership
Lawmakers in both chambers of the Oklahoma Legislature selected their leaders for the next two years during an organizational day on Monday. In subsequent comments, both men gave glancing views of potential legislative priorities for the 2023 legislative session, which begins in February.Ray Carter | January 3, 2023
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Education, Law & Principles
Adjunct-teacher-law critics are wrong
Adjunct teaching candidates are likely retirees who would not return to college for several years to get another degree in education, but who are willing to work today. Why not make it easier for schools to hire them?Jonathan Small | December 27, 2022
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Law & Principles
Agencies, schools, responding to Stitt’s TikTok ban
Gov. Kevin Stitt’s executive order banning the use of the TikTok social-media app by state entities is being implemented, although many state entities are tight-lipped about whether they previously used TikTok, which has drawn scrutiny for its potential exploitation by the Chinese Communist Party.Ray Carter | December 22, 2022
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Education, Law & Principles
Motion Picture Association opposes Oklahoma library book ratings
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has indicated it may sue Oklahoma schools if a state senator’s proposal to use a G/PG/R rating system for school-library books is implemented.Ray Carter | December 8, 2022
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Education, Law & Principles
AG: Religious charter schools are legal in Oklahoma
In an official legal opinion, Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor says a state law that prohibits religious entities from operating a public charter school likely violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and “therefore should not be enforced,” based on rulings from both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Oklahoma Supreme Court.Ray Carter | December 1, 2022
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Law & Principles
Activists say Muscogee (Creek) Nation should honor treaty
Descendants of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s former slaves say it is time the tribe finally honors the commitment it made in 1866 to give them citizenship.Ray Carter | December 1, 2022
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Law & Principles
Nonprofit creates fake quote to attack anti-CRT law
A nonprofit organization is offering to pay for the legal defense of teachers accused of violating a law that bans teaching children that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex.”Ray Carter | November 29, 2022
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Law & Principles
Lawmaker calls for ethics investigation of Hofmeister
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister may exit office the same way she entered it: under scrutiny for alleged violations of Oklahoma campaign laws.Ray Carter | November 22, 2022
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Law & Principles
Stitt defends small tribes’ gaming compacts
In a recent federal court filing, Gov. Kevin Stitt’s administration argues that gaming compacts negotiated with four smaller Oklahoma tribes in 2020 remain legally valid under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) even though the Oklahoma Supreme Court later ruled the compacts were not allowed under state law.Ray Carter | November 18, 2022
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Education, Law & Principles
Parent reaps second court victory against Owasso schools
For the second time in a month, a federal court has sided with an Oklahoma father and prevented the Owasso school district from banning the man from campus after he objected to allegedly pornographic material in the school library.Ray Carter | November 15, 2022