>>While standards guide what schools are to teach, school districts have sole authority to choose curriculum and books.

In November, the state abruptly canceled a search to buy 55,000 King James Bibles, an effort that attracted criticism for appearing to exclude all Bibles except an expensive version endorsed by President ....<<

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https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/02/21/education-department-seeks-to-buy-bible-lessons-for-elementary-kids/

>>In Mullin’s telling, his relationships with many of the major nominees, like Tulsi Gabbard — who he calls his “sister” — and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who he said he got to know while traveling on behalf of the Trump campaign — go back further than their relationships with many other senators.

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Mullin told NOTUS on Thursday there are “very few” nominees he didn’t know “way before this.” <<

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https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/02/21/markwayne-mullin-has-made-trump-administration-nominees-his-social-media-brand/

HUD Funding Delays Fuel Oklahoma Housing Concerns
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https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/02/14/hud-funding-delays-fuel-oklahoma-housing-concerns/

Traffic Scheme Nets [Oklahoma's] Texas County DA’s Office Millions

>>Did the whole thing sound like a shakedown? Yes — Wirth agreed with that much. And, sure, Wirth said, it was a way to skirt the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, protecting against unlawful search and seizure. <<

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https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/02/12/traffic-scheme-nets-texas-county-das-office-millions/

Is this the next place we see sweetheart deals or self-dealing in Oklahoma? Does one of the members of the legislature just happen to own a food services company? One of their wives/husbands? What about Stitt's brother-in-law?

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https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/02/07/oklahoma-looks-to-privatize-prison-food-service/