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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.

StateImpact is on a listening tour with Oklahoma's youth. And we've brought along our microphones. In the first session, two transgender high school juniors from Tulsa share how they feel about their education and their place in the state.

As abortion bills grabbed national headlines last week, Oklahoma lawmakers were also considering a number of education measures.

The first week of Oklahoma's legislative session is complete. StateImpact's Robby Korth reports where education issues stand.