StateImpact Oklahoma
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StateImpact Oklahoma reports on education, health, environment, and the intersection of government and everyday Oklahomans. It's a reporting project and collaboration of KGOU, KOSU, KWGS and KCCU, with broadcasts heard on these NPR Member stations.
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As a crisis continues on the U.S. Southern Border, Oklahoma lawmakers are among counterparts from about a dozen states taking things into their own hands. Their efforts generated backlash from the Latino immigrant community.
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Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill that joins the state into a licensing compact for physician assistants.
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A bill that would prohibit schools from using corporal punishment on children with certain disabilities passed the Oklahoma Senate Tuesday.
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A bill that passed the Senate Appropriations Committee last week could provide more transparency to the prior authorization process.
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A new study found Oklahoma’s health care systems are performing poorly among people from all racial and ethnic backgrounds.
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In Tulsa, there are about 450 after-school programs at risk of shrinking to just 75 once ESSER funds are gone.
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Oklahoma Human Services is getting closer to addressing its 13-year Developmental Disabilities Services waitlist.
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Opill, which was approved by the FDA last July, is the nation’s first over-the-counter birth control pill, and it’s hitting pharmacy shelves now.
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Oklahoma Republican lawmakers “shucked” a bill about law enforcement recording access and replaced it with new language to allow public schools to employ religious chaplains or accept voluntary chaplains to “provide support, services and programs for students.”
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They may not have been quite in the path of totality, but pre-kindergarteners through fifth graders at Putnam City’s Tulakes Elementary School were still on pins and needles Monday, waiting to experience 94% totality at the solar eclipse.
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A Tulsa STI testing clinic worries a bill seeking to improve sexually transmitted infection rates will accomplish the exact opposite.
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The Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General has received 101 applications for an initial round of opioid lawsuit settlement grants.