Today, State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced in a release that the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) will begin withholding federal education funds on April 25 from school districts that fail to sign the required federal Title VI assurance. This assurance, mandated by the U.S. Department of Education, confirms that schools will not engage in discriminatory practices under the guise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). This may be a horrific shock to the Tulsa Public Schools (TPS) System.
Updated Tempered Analysis: Do they hate us so much they publicly laugh as they destroy our children’s physical and mental health in Oklahoma? It is hard to know where to lay the blame but Leftist Educators, Superintendents, Administrators, School Board Members, Prosecutors, Judges, Legacy Media (local and national) and other slime-ball enablers should rot in hell for allowing a Transsexual Teacher-Coach guilty of sexual battery of a student to get away with no jail time, a $1,000 fine (payable at $50 per month), and “she” cannot be employed by or within a school system during her two years of supervised probation. Yes, you read that correctly, no jail time and only two years probation on a potential ten-year sentence.
V1SUT.Substack broke the latest today in an ongoing saga of “Nicko Mistystarr Deocampo Miranda (44), a ‘trans’ teacher and volleyball coach at Eisenhower High School in Lawton, Oklahoma, arrested for conducting a sexual relationship with a female student and volleyball player.
“From Miranda’s initial hiring in 2022, Lawton Public Schools allowed parents to believe she was a male teacher. In reporting her arrest, the local, legacy media similarly reported Miranda to be male despite her placement in the women’s area of the Comanche County Detention Center,” the story continued.
Patrick B. McGuigan of City News Tulsaposted a story today on local representatives questioning delay of the Tulsa Public Schools System audit. McGuigan reported from a release issued by the State House of Representatives and referenced previous stories crafted by this writer and Education Editor Susan Phillips.
The Justice Department announced in a release today that a federal judge in Oklahoma City has approved an agreement with Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) to resolve allegations that OKCPS violated Air Force Reserve Staff Sergeant Michael J. McCullough’s rights under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA). The department’s lawsuit alleged that OKCPS violated USERRA when it failed to renew Mr. McCullough’s employment contract because of his military deployment and then failed to reinstate him on his return.
“When service members answer their nation’s call — leaving home and work to serve and protect us — federal law protects them against employment discrimination and unjust termination,” said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Kathleen Wolfe of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Veterans must be able to serve their country free from worry about jeopardizing civilian career opportunities.”
Does the First Amendment require states to never allow public funds to support charter schools run by religiously-affiliated organizations, or does it require states to not prohibit the religious activity of organizations that meet all state requirements to provide schools?
