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In the episode: Oklahoma takes part in at least five lawsuits against the Biden Administration over vaccine mandates, the state's new public health lab comes under federal scrutiny and more.

The lifelong educator is the third Latino candidate Biden's put forward for a Cabinet post. On Wednesday, Cardona spoke of the challenges schools have faced this year: "I've lived those challenges."

Cardona is a former teacher and has spent much of the pandemic pushing to reopen schools. President-elect Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate him on Tuesday evening.

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Education announced Oklahoma will receive $40 million in emergency block grant funds to disburse to the state's…

Public school teachers across the country say they've been improperly hit with thousands of dollars in debt when paperwork errors turned their grants into loans that they're now supposed to pay back.

The shutdown affects some 35,000 students and more than 8,000 employees in 38 states. ITT Technical Institutes blamed the Education Department, which recently imposed financial sanctions.