education funding

This episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma features reports on Tulsa education leaders advocating for more equitable funding, a grand jury released a report detailing conditions at the Oklahoma County jail, and the 2023 Tulsa Jazz Fest.

This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss state lawmakers calling for a special session to run concurrently with the regular session, and Gov. Kevin Stitt and GOP legislative leaders celebrating an education funding plan.

After a months-long standoff, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and legislative leaders are celebrating a deal on this year’s education budget worth $625 million in recurring funds and $160 million in one-time funds.

This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss the U.S. Supreme Court staying the execution of death row inmate Richard Glossip, the stalemate over education funding and the stack of Gov. Kevin Stitt's vetoes.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced in a Thursday press conference he felt the months-long legislative stalemate over education funding was coming to an end. But, Senate leaders say that’s not the case.

The Oklahoma legislature has been deadlocked for weeks as it hashes out a plan for education funding. StateImpact’s Beth Wallis sat down with The Oklahoman’s education reporter Nuria Martinez-Keel to talk about the events at the Capitol that led up to this moment.

This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss State Superintendent Ryan Walters finally testifying before lawmakers during a House Appropriations & Budget Committee, the House passing a tax credit voucher bill for private and home school families while rejecting a teacher pay raise, and more.

House Speaker Charles McCall moved to hold the HB1934, meaning it won’t be sent to Governor Kevin Stitt yet. That gives the House some leverage to negotiate on the Senate’s newly amended version of the other big education bill — House Bill 2672.

Even though funding measures advocated for by 2018 Oklahoma Teacher Walkout participants were stymied largely by Republican lawmakers, Oklahoma’s GOP is now authoring record-level education funding measures that include teacher raises, along with a slew of labor rights bills for educators. But the funding bills are far from a done deal — in fact, due to a disagreement in how those bills should operate, there could be no deal at all.

This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses the censure of Rep. Dean Davis (R-Broken Arrow) after he was arrested on charges of public intoxication and the State Senate amending and passing education bills from the House causing a stalemate between the chambers.