Higher education; requiring policy ensuring student grades are evaluated solely on an academic basis; directing the State Regents to withhold state-appropriated funds for failure to adopt a policy; effective date; emergency.
Higher education; requiring all academic programs be reviewed on a five-year cycle for quality and currency; review; low-producing programs; emergency.
Schools; School District Transparency Act; instructional expenditure disclosures on district website; bond proposals, and bond guarantee applications; effective date; emergency.
Teacher preparation; establishment of TeachForwardOK; allowing Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability to select more than one applicant under certain circumstances. Emergency.
School district boards of education; modifying exception to certain prohibition on certain relationships between board members and school district employees. Effective date. Emergency.
Education; authorizing the State Regents for Higher Education and the Department of Career and Technology Education to designate a credential of value.
Higher education; directing certain institutions of higher education to establish certain training program for graduate instructors. Effective date. Emergency.
Education; public schools; annual instruction on firearm safety; Department of Education; Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training; effective date; emergency.
Postsecondary education; prohibiting institutions from having differentiated standardized test score requirements for certain students; removing certain differentiated grade point average and test score requirements; effective date; emergency.
Education initiatives; Education Impact and Innovation Revolving Fund; competitive grants pool; State Department of Education to administer grant program; rubric. Effective date.
Teachers; removing reference to pilot status of new and innovative pathways toward teacher certification; removing sunset date. Effective date. Emergency.