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The resolution calling on state lawmakers to repeal a controversial education bill that prohibits certain curriculum about race, sexuality and gender follows a similar one put forth by the Osage Nation.

When the Osage Nation Congress met to discuss routine business last week, one item included supporting a resolution that called on Oklahoma's legislature to repeal the controversial HB 1775, a law that limits discussion of race, sexuality and gender in the classroom.

StateImpact has gotten many questions about House Bill 1775, Oklahoma's so-called critical race theory ban. So, we decided to address the most common ones.

A week after Oklahoma’s State Board of Education downgraded Tulsa Public Schools for violations of the state’s so-called critical race theory ban, TPS is asking for its decision to be reversed.

StateImpact continues its listening tour with Oklahoma's youth. This time, we talked to a couple of Tulsa high school students about race, gender and how they interact with their peers at school.

In a tense meeting Thursday, Oklahoma’s State Board of Education voted to approve the accreditation of more than 1,000 school sites across the state. But they spent a lot of that time lobbing thinly veiled political attacks at certain schools — and each other.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed bills that limit how race and sexual orientation can be taught. He says students have been getting a "distorted" view of history.

The Biden administration is starting a process that could change how the U.S. census and federal surveys produce racial and ethnic data that is used for redistricting and civil rights enforcement.

When the show cast The Doctor as a woman, it avoided exploring her gender. Now that Ncuti Gatwa is The Doctor, critic Eric Deggans writes, Doctor Who shouldn't avoid his Blackness.

Oklahoma parents and students have filed no complaints about textbooks violating the state’s so-called Critical Race Theory ban. But that didn’t stop Secretary of Education Ryan Walters from sending a warning letter to approved textbook publishers calling on them not to violate the law.