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The Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) is seeking feedback on the revised Draft of the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Fine Arts and Computer Science, which are up for review and revision in 2022. The OSDE facilitates a revision of academic subject matter standards every six years in accordance with 70 O.S. § 11-103.6a.
Academic subject matter standards are concise, written descriptions of what students are expected to know and be able to do at a specific stage of their education. Academic standards describe educational objectives (i.e., what students should have learned by the end of a course, grade level or grade span), but they do not describe a particular teaching practice, curriculum or assessment method.
OSDE asks that all interested stakeholders provide feedback on the standards by following the process below:
- Gather a team of stakeholders and set aside approximately one hour to complete a review for each grade you choose.
- Download the Draft Standards for:
- Submit typed feedback (as specific or as broad you like) by Dec. 2 to the corresponding email address.
All feedback received during the public comment period will be reviewed by the OSDE and subject-area writing committee for consideration.
For additional information about the standards, visit the Standards Review & Revision Process webpage or contact Tiffany Neill at tiffany.neill@sde.ok.gov.
SAFE is a free, student-led program for high school students that focuses on peer-to-peer promotion of traffic safety. Through education, rewards and enforcement, SAFE highlights the importance of wearing a seatbelt, driving alert and following traffic laws with the goal of decreasing the number of teen injuries and deaths from vehicle crashes.
View a program brochure here.
For more information, visit the SAFE website or contact Michael Lopez at mlopez@dccca.org.
A number of new education laws took effect today, Nov. 1.
View bill summaries below. Extensive summaries for these bills can be found in the 2022 Red Banner Book.
HB1800 – Extends the time period a person discharged from the military, or their spouse or dependent, is eligible for in-state tuition at a college or university from five years to ten years. Effective November 1, 2022.
HB2034 – Creates the Energy Discrimination Elimination Act of 2022 requiring the state treasurer to maintain and provide state government entities and political subdivisions a list of financial companies that boycott energy companies, with which the state is not to do business unless there is no viable alternative. Additionally, it prohibits government entities, including school districts, from contracting with any company unless the company attests that it does not boycott energy companies. Effective November 1, 2022.
HB2627 – Requires each county assessor to provide an annual report by June 1 listing any tax protests in excess of $3 million to the CFO of each impacted school district and recipient tax jurisdiction. It requires new documentation and filing requirements for assessors and tax protestors and allows assessors to appoint third-party appraisers. Effective November 1, 2022.
HB2768 – Requires the existing annual dyslexia awareness program to include information and training in dysgraphia beginning in the 2023-24 school year. Renames the Dyslexia Handbook to be “Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Handbook”, with subsequent triannual review and revision to include effectively identifying students who have dysgraphia and studying and making recommendations for research-based resources and interventions to support them. Requires a speech-language pathologist and an occupational therapist to be consulted while reviewing and revisiting the Handbook. Effective November 1, 2022.
HB3092 – Requires school library media programs to be reflective of the community standards for the population served when acquiring an age-appropriate collection of materials, multimedia resources, equipment, and supplies adequate in quality and quantity to meet the needs of local students. Effective November 1, 2022.
HB3258 – Classifies college professors having intimate relationships with concurrently enrolled high school students over the age of consent while enrolled in the professor's course as a sex crime. Effective November 1, 2022.
HB3315 – Eliminates the administrative fine as a penalty for persons under 21 who buy tobacco, nicotine, or vapor products, instead requiring they complete an education or tobacco use cessation program approved by the State Department of Health. Effective November 1, 2022.
HB3702 – Requires public schools, universities, state agencies, and public libraries to have technology protection measures for their digital or online library databases that prevent K-12th grade students from viewing or receiving obscene materials or content. Requires such entities to have safety polices and technology protection measures to prohibit and prevent a user from sending or receiving obscene materials and filters to block such materials. If a provider of online library resources fails to provide timely verification of compliance with the required protection measures, the entity or school is required to withhold payment from the provider. Requires libraries to submit an aggregate annual report by December 1 to the Legislature on any issues related to provider compliance. Does not exempt school, library, and state employees from prosecution for willful violations. Effective November 1, 2022.
HB3823 – Allows licensed optometrists and ophthalmologists to perform vision screening for children going into kindergarten, first and third grade for purposes of meeting the vision screening requirements. Exempts optometrists and ophthalmologists from the standards and training requirements created by the Infant and Children's Health Advisory Council. Effective November 1, 2022.
HB4080 – Makes comprehensive revisions to the requirements and procedures regulating the bonding, contracting, construction, maintenance and sale of public buildings and works. Significant changes include:
- Raising the contract amount, from $50,000 to $100,000, that requires and awardee to furnish a bond with sureties to the state;
- Requiring that plans and specifications for new public buildings to be submitted to the State Fire Marshal or the authority having jurisdiction before the bidding process;
- Requiring the requisitioning state agency to be responsible for the payment to construction managers or consultants when using them for an on-call minor service;
- Requiring that all drawings made by a construction manager or consultant be delivered to the state as directed by the terms of the contract;
- Allowing notices of public agencies seeking bids for a public construction contract to be given electronically and modifies notice requirement guidelines;
- Removing the requirement for contractors to provide letters of credit for contracts of various amounts;
- Allowing for the retainage amount of partial payments be lowered to 2.5 percent from 5 percent once the awarding agency determines that the project is at least 50 percent completed;
- Allowing the Risk Management Administrator of OMES to declare an emergency on behalf of a public agency when an insurable loss has occurred that would lead to more economic loss or additional property damage if not addressed promptly;
- Modifying the evaluation requirements for written proposals submitted for the purchase of state-owned property. Effective November 1, 2022.
SB924 – Requires state agencies in possession of state data to comply with all existing statutory obligations in managing data by responding to open records requests, reporting and responding to data breaches, and any other obligations when hosting, accessing, storing, collecting or processing data. Effective November 1, 2022.
SB1307 – Requires school districts and charter schools serving students in grades 7-12 that issue identification cards to print the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on either side of the card beginning July 1, 2023, with the option of including the Crisis Text Line. Schools may use any existing inventory of non-compliant identification cards until the supply is exhausted. All identification cards issued for the first time and replacement cards must have the new information. Effective November 1, 2022.
SB1410 – Creates the “Oklahoma Emergency Energy Availability Act of 2022,” requiring state agencies, school districts, universities, and municipalities that either have or choose to develop an energy policy, to include an emergency energy plan detailing sources of energy during a state of emergency. Emergency energy plans are prohibited from deriving energy from a single source and must include policies to acquire power from at least three distinct energy sources. Directs the Department of Emergency Management (OEM) to promulgate rules to implement these provisions. Effective November 1, 2022.
SB1659 – Directs scholarship-granting organizations and educational improvement grant organizations that receive funds under the Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship Act to submit audited financial statements and other required information by April 30, 2024, rather than December 31, 2022, with resubmissions to be made every two years rather than every four years. This information must also be submitted to the chairs of the Senate and House education committees. The bill requires eligible public school foundations and public school districts to submit audited financial statements and information detailing the benefits, successes, or failures of programs offered using grant funding by April 30, 2024, rather than December 31, 2022, with the four-year submission cycle remaining unchanged. Effective November 1, 2022.
SB1520 – Requires the retainage amount for a public construction contract to be reduced from the maximum of five percent (5%) to two and one-half percent (2.5%) any time a contractor has completed more than fifty percent (50%) of the work with satisfactory progress. Effective November 1, 2022.
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