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State Board approves dozens of waivers and exemptions, issues accreditation warnings and schedules hearings
Summary
In a special Oct. 9 meeting the board approved textbook-fund flexibility waivers, multiple library-media exemptions and waivers for alternative education, issued an accreditation warning for one district, and took formal disciplinary steps including emergency suspensions, voluntary surrenders and scheduling of due-process hearings.
State Superintendent Lindel Fields convened the Oct. 9 special meeting and the board moved quickly through a range of deregulatory and disciplinary items.
On education-service waivers the board approved statutory waivers to allow flexibility in the use of state textbook funds for multiple districts (70 O.S. § 16-114a) after a motion by Board Member Brian Bobek. The board also approved district requests for exemption from library-media specialist certification (70 O.S. § 3-126) and a broad set of library-media services waivers under OAC 210 provisions, allowing alternatives such…
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