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In Oklahoma, Counting Migrant Students May Have Gone Too Far

alishpagda08@gmail.com4 months ago013 mins

Oklahoma’s conservative Republican governor, Kevin Stitt, and its conservative Republican schools superintendent have appeared to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the years of Donald J. Trump, with the former sending Oklahoma guardsmen to the southern border and the latter stocking the state’s schools with Trump-branded Bibles. But when the superintendent, Ryan Walters, proposed finding the undocumented students…

Oklahoma Proposes Teaching 2020 Election ‘Discrepancies’ in U.S. History

alishpagda08@gmail.com4 months ago010 mins

High school students in Oklahoma would be asked to identify “discrepancies” in the 2020 election as part of U.S. history classes, according to new social studies standards recently approved by the Oklahoma Board of Education. The proposed standards seem to echo President Trump’s false claims about his 2020 defeat. They ask students to examine factors…