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Oklahoma State Board of Education posts June 26 agenda with certification reviews, waivers and legal matters
Summary
The State Board of Education’s June 26 agenda lists teacher certificate actions, multiple statutory waivers and exemptions for the 2025–2026 school year, a mandatory annexation request, and potential executive-session consideration of certificate suspensions and consent orders.
The Oklahoma State Board of Education posted an agenda for its regular meeting on June 26, 2025, at the Oliver Hodge Building in Oklahoma City that centers on teacher certification matters, district waivers for the 2025–2026 school year, and several legal items to be considered in executive session.
The agenda opens with routine business, including consideration of amended minutes from Feb. 27, 2025, and minutes from May 21, 2025. Board administrative items are slated for omnibus approval unless a board member requests separate votes.
Key items listed for action include requests for emergency (provisional) teacher certificates under 70 O.S. § 6-187 and flexibility to use textbook funds under 70 O.S. § 16-114a(B); districts named for textbook-fund flexibility include Friend Public Schools (Grady County), Bartlesville Public Schools (Washington County) and Olive Public Schools (Creek County). The accreditation standards section lists requests for deregulation to allow an Abbreviated School Day for alternative education at Newcastle, Healdton, Piedmont, Western Heights and Pawnee public schools, and a set of listed districts seeking exemptions from library media certification requirements for 2025–2026 (including New Lima, Mustang, Arapaho-Butler, Cyril, Fairview, Middleberg, Cleora, Freedom, Lindsay, the Oklahoma School for the Deaf, Yukon and Heavner).
The agenda also includes a statutory-waiver request concerning Cooperative Agreements for Alternative Education (70 O.S. § 1210.568) and petitions to authorize school-year calendars shorter than 165 days for Osage, Coyle and Stonewall public schools.
Under legal services, the board will consider a request to approve a mandatory annexation moving Albion Public Schools to Clayton Public Schools (Pushmataha County); the agenda lists Randall Erwin as Superintendent of Albion Public Schools in that item. General Counsel Chad Kutmas is listed for a set of executive-session matters the board is asked to consider under 25 O.S. § 307, including applications for emergency summary suspension of teacher certificates for named individuals, consent orders accepting voluntary surrender of certificates for named individuals, administrative findings and exceptions, and joint motions for dismissal in pending court cases (Independent School District No. I-2 of Creek County v. State Board of Education, CV-2024-24; Independent School District No. I-5 of Tulsa County v. State Board of Education, CV-2024-01680). The agenda also notes a separate listing to discuss OSDE v. John King and other matters.
Procedural information for public participation is included: a sign-up sheet will be available before the meeting and removed at 9:25 a.m.; public-comment speakers will be limited to one minute unless the Board Chairman extends time; the Chairman retains discretion to interrupt or terminate presentations that do not conform to procedures.
The published agenda lists these items for the board’s consideration; it does not record motions, votes or final outcomes. The board is scheduled to take up the listed items at the June 26 meeting; outcomes, amendments or votes will be reflected in the official meeting minutes or subsequent meeting records.
