education funding

Federal auditors found problems with Oklahoma’s COVID-19 relief programs for students. It’s causing delays in spending additional funds totalling nearly $18 million.

Oklahoma lawmakers took a deep dive into the state's complicated education funding formula Tuesday morning. Find out what they had to say from a spending evaluation by the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency.

Federal auditors have recommended clawing back hundreds of thousands of dollars disbursed by Gov. Kevin Stitt as part of federally funded coronavirus relief grants.

Oklahoma gave a Florida company a no-bid contract to distribute $18 million in pandemic relief money as a test-run for school vouchers. Now federal investigators are eyeing the deal.

StateImpact Oklahoma spent time talking with families and educators in Sulphur to learn what school choice looks like in a rural community.

On Monday evening, Oklahoma's State Board of Education rescinded a controversial resolution from March. The move to equalize charter and traditional public school building funds without controversy follows action by the state legislature.

A budget deal expected to soon get the final stamp of approval from Gov. Kevin Stitt includes a number of increases for common education.

Top Oklahoma lawmakers and the Governor on Thursday unveiled their plans for the state budget next fiscal year.

Almost 200 Oklahoma public school districts are banding together to file a class action lawsuit against Oklahoma’s State Board of Education. The move is to keep local tax revenues from going to charter schools.

A bill that would nullify a controversial settlement announced by Oklahoma’s State Board of Education and fix funding disparities between charter and traditional public schools with medical marijuana money, passed through the Oklahoma House of Representatives Thursday.