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Across-the-Desk

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Wed Feb 9, 2022, 06:15 PM Feb 2022

Across the Desk - S5:E4 (The OK GOP Attack on Public Education)

This week Kit talks about several bills proposed by Oklahoma Republicans into the State Legislature designed to make Public education harder for teachers, administrators, and students... All in a bid to kill the Public school system in Oklahoma, or at least make it really hard for someone to want to work, or learn, there... And seven of these bills are from just two Senators... A bills on 'Wellness Scholarships' so you can make the State pay for your child's private school education if the public school they go to requires mask or vaccine mandates. And the private school? The can still have the mandates.... A bill that protects a students 'closely held religious beliefs' if a teacher or staff does anything directly, or indirectly, that would offend a person's religious views... It's kooky, It's clowny, and it's this week on Across the Desk...

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