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Education
COVID learning deficits to last for years, experts warn
Learning loss from the COVID shutdown of public schools will take years to overcome and many students may leave Oklahoma’s K-12 system without ever catching up, experts told lawmakers during a study that examined how federal bailout funds may be used to address the problem.Ray Carter | October 29, 2021
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Education, Good Government
Oklahoma lawmakers call on OSSBA to act
Fifteen members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives have called on the Oklahoma State School Boards Association to publicly denounce the National School Boards Association’s recent request for federal law enforcement officials to investigate parent protesters under anti-terrorism and hate-crimes laws.Ray Carter | October 26, 2021
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Education
Quality, not seniority, stressed for teacher pay
Among the reasons Oklahoma struggles to retain quality teachers is that existing financial incentives encourage teachers to leave the classroom and that basing teacher salaries on seniority, rather than performance, discourages good teachers and leads them to quickly abandon the profession, officials told lawmakers during a recent study.Ray Carter | October 21, 2021
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Education
OSSBA declines to publicly condemn attack on parents
The head of the Oklahoma State School Boards Association said his group is not planning to publicly condemn the National School Boards Association’s recent request that parent protesters at school board meetings be investigated by federal officials under anti-terrorism laws.Ray Carter | October 21, 2021
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Education
Testing results show need to fund students, not systems
Previously, only about one-third of students performed at grade level in key subjects. Today, things are even worse.Jonathan Small | October 20, 2021
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Education
Activist groups file lawsuit against HB 1775
A coalition of activist groups has filed a federal lawsuit challenging an Oklahoma state law that prohibits public schools from teaching children that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex.”Ray Carter | October 20, 2021
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Education
School diversity officers associated with worse achievement
Nationwide, K-12 schools are hiring chief diversity officers to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals, typically in the name of reducing racial achievement gaps.Ray Carter | October 19, 2021
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Education
O’Connor sides with Edmond parents in quarantine dispute
Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor has sided with parents in a legal dispute over Edmond Public Schools’ policy of requiring healthy, unvaccinated students to be quarantined when similarly situated vaccinated students are not.Ray Carter | October 18, 2021
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Education
OSSBA silent as counterparts reject ‘terrorism’ rhetoric
State school board associations from across the nation are publicly condemning the National School Boards Association’s call for parents who object to Critical Race Theory to be investigated under anti-terrorism laws.Ray Carter | October 13, 2021
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Education
Statewide school-district testing results still not public
While school districts have had student results of state tests for months, parents are still not able to publicly view district-level comparisons—and the window for unveiling that data remains uncertain.Ray Carter | October 12, 2021