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November’s students of the month are (pictured left to right): Rylee Bentley of Shawnee – Business and Education, Sydni Chilcoat of Ada – STEM, Lacie Moon of Shawnee – Language Arts and Humanities, Aylin Salazar of Madill – Social Sciences, Audrey McAdams of Shawnee – Health Sciences. Courtesy Photo
Read moreRep. Wendi Stearman has filed House Bill 2980, the “Keep Our Money in Oklahoma Act,” which aims to protect the parents, children and taxpayers of Oklahoma’s public school system from outside influences that do not reflect the Oklahoma Standard.
Read moreState Rep. Andy Fugate, D-Del City, released the following statement today after legislation he filed was left unheard in the House Redistricting Committee. The refusal to hear the legislation most likely means the bill won’t be heard during the current special session.
Read moreFor the eighth time in the last nine years, the University of Oklahoma has been awarded the Davis Cup in recognition of its record-setting enrollment of Davis United World College international freshmen. The Class of 2025 includes 85 Davis UWC Scholars, an alltime high for the university.
Read moreOklahoma State Auditor & Inspector Cindy Byrd today released the Investigative Audit of the former Justice Alma Wilson Seeworth Academy in Oklahoma City.
Read moreOver 60 million Americans live and work in seemingly idyllic, rural communities. But life gets challenging when illness or pregnancy forces you to travel greater distances to see a doctor, or get to a hospital if the local one closed due to lack of funding. National Rural Health Day on November 18, an annual event on the third Thursday each November, helps us focus on the state of rural healthcare. We celebrate the providers, healthcare professionals, and community leaders who keep the spirit of small-town America alive in the best way possible.
Read moreSeveral members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and state Senate sent a letter to state Superintendent Joy Hofmeister on Tuesday asking her to begin the process of promulgating permanent rules to implement House Bill 1775, which prevents schools from teaching certain theories, such as one race or sex is superior to another.
Read moreThe FBI is aware of a software misconfiguration that temporarily allowed an actor to leverage the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP) to send fake emails. LEEP is FBI IT infrastructure used to communicate with our state and local law enforcement partners. While the illegitimate email originated from an FBI operated server, that server was dedicated to pushing notifications for LEEP and was not part of the FBI’s corporate email service. No actor was able to access or compromise any data or PII on the FBI’s network. Once we learned of the incident, we quickly remediated the software vulnerability, warned partners to disregard the fake emails, and confirmed the integrity of our networks.
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