On Tuesday, the Oklahoma State Board of Education and State Superintendent of Public Instruction approved advancing a set of permanent rules which would require public school districts to collect the citizenship status of students and their parents.
Tulsa World’s Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton and Melissa Jacques write the rule also requires districts to inform the State Department of Education how many families refuse to provide that information.
The Board also advanced other rules which deal with teachers passing a version of the U.S. Citizenship test to receive their teaching certificate, disclosure of donations to school districts, and policies dealing with the display of the American flag and the recital of the Pledge of Allegiance.
The rules will not go into effect until they have received approval from the Legislature and Governor Kevin Stitt.
Read the Tulsa World story here.
