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Oklahoma Capitol -- The State Department of Education is launching Raise the Grade Together – an initiative designed to complement the re...

OKLAHOMA CITY --  Deborah G. Smith, Director of Child Welfare Services for the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS), is the recipi...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General Scott Pruitt announced Wednesday that the Oklahoma Supreme Court has ordered a new multicounty grand jury ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – In light of the recent global controversy over freedom of speech and religion that has exploded in violent protests allege...

THE STORY Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis play two determined mothers, one a teacher, who will stop at nothing to transform their c...

New IRS rule to tax businesses conflicts with health care law OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General Scott Pruitt filed an amended complaint W...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Ethics Commission Executive Director Marilyn Hughes today announced her retirement effective December 1, 2012. Hughes has ...

By Stacy Martin, CapitolBeatOK.com ( Published: 17-Sep-2012)   Oklahoma’s largest teacher’s union, the   Oklahoma Education Association...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Governor Mary Fallin today made an unannounced visit to the Northern Oklahoma Resources Center of Enid (NORCE) to get a firs...

OKLAHOMA CAPITOL-- Children in foster care often have higher rates of disease than their peers, and as a group they experience poorer heal...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Average Oklahomans come into contact with administrative laws frequently, former administrative law judge Gary Payne told...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Jared Saxton, Managing Partner of BlueLid Technologies, gave Oklahoma lawmakers a lesson in technical legislative processes...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Total collections to the state’s General Revenue Fund slowed in August, but sales tax growth remained a silver lining for t...

Oklahoma's top higher education official said he's optimistic about the state's college completion goals — but only if lawmak...

OKLAHOMA CITY (Sept. 12, 2012) – Ten Oklahoma elementary schools recently were named K20 STEM–Building STEM-Ready Elementary Schools. The f...

OKLAHOMA CITY – State Rep. T.W. Shannon said last week he will be conducting a legislative study to examine contingency plans for scenari...

State Department of Education - In 2011, the Oklahoma Legislature adopted an A-F School Grading System to provide incentives to schools for...

MYTH - At least 80 percent of Oklahoma schools would receive an F under this system, with little chance to improve to C and never an A. ...

State Department of Education -  State Superintendent Janet Barresi on Friday announced six Oklahoma schools had been designated as Blue Rib...

By Stacy Martin at CapitolBeatOK.com ( Published: 04-Sep-2012)   A hard press for transparency has led Oklahoma’s first Republican stat...

Oklahoma State Capitol - This blog passed 75,000 hits today. Thank you for using this site as a source of information.  I don't cover ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Office of State Finance is no more—now it's the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, effective Friday, Aug...