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A record number of education candidates filed for political office this year.
During last legislative session the battle cry for educators became "Remember in November."
More than half of the teachers in Tuesday night's primary will be moving on in their campaigns for a seat in the Oklahoma Legislature.
Teachers have been meeting with their legislators on Monday. And, at least one of them, Rep. Bobby Cleveland from Norman, had some strong language for educators during a phone interview on News 9 This morning.
OU student Reagan Ledbetter is at the state Capitol Monday talking to state leaders about the teacher pay raise plan signed into law last week and about concerns from educators regarding classroom funding and support staff pay.
A plan to avert a teacher walkout on April 2 was introduced to the Oklahoma state House on Monday.
The debate continues over a Department of Human Services group home for boys in Newcastle.
Dozens of people went to the state Capitol Tuesday, demanding what they call sensible gun laws in the wake of the Parkland Florida school shooting.
An Oklahoma Department of Human Services caseworker is under fire after a Facebook post under her name revealed a disturbing perspective of one of her ongoing cases, but the caseworker claims she never wrote the post.
Another bombshell at the state’s Department of Health.
Last year was not a good year to be an Oklahoma state lawmaker.
The embattled Oklahoma State Department of Health is coming under fire again for the salary it’s offering the agency’s interim director, even though the interim director admits he’s not qualified.
The State Board of Health met and fired the agency’s director of accountability Tuesday.
Governor Mary Fallin is calling a second special session December 18.
Gov. Mary Fallin will call the legislature back into session in the coming weeks to bridge a $110 million budget gap caused when she vetoed much of their budget plan.