Fifth-grade students Lillie Colbert and Kennedy Fletcher work on laptops at Rosewood Elementary in Broken Arrow Public Schools. (Photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Education.) This article was originally delivered to subscribers of our Education Watch newsletter. Sign up now to receive Education Watch directly in your inbox. Policymakers are looking to build on the success [...]

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Students at Bridge Creek Middle School in Blanchard in 2019. (File photo) This article was originally delivered to subscribers of our Education Watch newsletter. Sign up now to receive Education Watch directly in your inbox. The state Education Department published its latest state report card this week, with new data on six measures, including test scores, absenteeism [...]

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A decision by the state’s domestic violence board exposed a rift over how a mandatory protective tool is to be used and led chairman and domestic violence advocate Brandon Pasley to resign.

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A hallway of lockers at Frederick Douglass High School in Oklahoma City. (Jake Ramsey/Oklahoma Watch) This article was originally delivered to subscribers of our Education Watch newsletter. Sign up now to receive Education Watch directly in your inbox. The Trump administration announced a plan to shift much of the U.S. Department of Education's work to other agencies [...]

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State Superintendent of Public Schools Lindel Fields. (Ted Streuli/Oklahoma Watch) This article was originally delivered to subscribers of our Education Watch newsletter. Sign up now to receive Education Watch directly in your inbox. In a TV interview recently, Superintendent of Public Instruction Lindel Fields dropped a policy idea that raised a few eyebrows: increasing the number of [...]

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More older Americans are dying by gun suicide. The rate is particularly high in Oklahoma, and especially in rural counties.

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A row of books in a school library. (Whitney Bryen/Oklahoma Watch) This article was originally delivered to subscribers of our Education Watch newsletter. Sign up now to receive Education Watch directly in your inbox. Former Oklahoma educator Summer Boismier filed a new lawsuit in federal court last week over the state's revocation of her teaching credentials. In [...]

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Superintendent of Public Instruction Lindel Fields talks to reporters in am Education Department conference room on Oct. 7, 2025. (Ted Streuli/Oklahoma Watch) This article was originally delivered to subscribers of our Education Watch newsletter. Sign up now to receive Education Watch directly in your inbox. The Oklahoma Department of Education, under new Superintendent of Schools Lindel Fields, [...]

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OKC police are withholding police reports unless there was an arrest, charges or a warrant, alarming transparency advocates. The public access counselor sided with police, allowing the practice to continue and, potentially, spread.

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