In The News 05.22.2025

Here are the headlines shared on Thursday, May 22, 2025

SCOTUS rules on the first religious charter school in Oklahoma (Read) / Image: Wikipedia

In The News

Here are the headlines shared on Thursday, May 22, 2025

• SCOTUS tie ends Oklahoma plan to open nation's first publicly funded Catholic charter school (Oklahoma Voice)

• Split Supreme Court blocks first religious charter school in Oklahoma (SCOTUSblog)

• Supreme Court sidesteps religious charter school question for now on 4-4 deadlock (Law Dork)

• State Supt. Walters addressing Supreme Court's block on religious public charter schools (KOKH)

• Oklahoma state officials respond to U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Catholic charter school (KSWO)

• Oklahoma lawmakers pushing to restructure TSET board in act of ‘retaliation,’ Dem says (Oklahoma Voice)

• Newly elected Oklahoma senator takes oath of office (Oklahoma Voice)

• Senate sends state budget bill, tax cut to Oklahoma governor (Oklahoma Voice)

• Choctaw Nation honors WWI Code Talkers (KTEN)

• All lanes of Roosevelt Bridge now reopened, repairs set for mid-June (KXII)

• Oklahoma Health Care Authority addresses impacts to Medicaid proposed in House budget bill (KGOU)

• The grief and relief of rural school annexation in Oklahoma (KGOU)

• Oklahoma sees $11 million broadband grant cancellation, though officials remain confident (KOSU)

• 'Bit of a mess': Legislative workaround stalls, Muscogee compact dispute lingers with Stitt

• More Texas children are getting the measles vaccine early (The Texas Tribune)

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