June 23, 2025
A group of civil rights advocates and their opponent, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, are both claiming victory after the state's high court determined that a 2021 law that blocks the teaching of certain racial and gender topics in public classrooms does not apply to academic speech in higher educational settings.
February 18, 2025
Oklahoma is fighting a bid by civil rights' groups to force public school officials to hand over documents related to a controversial bill that bans the teaching of certain racial and gender topics in public classrooms, arguing the request is premature and the discovery they seek is without limitation.
September 05, 2024
Civil rights groups and Oklahoma university professors say the state may have violated an order that blocks part of a controversial censorship law from being enforced in classrooms after a teacher's license was revoked for encouraging students to access the Brooklyn Public Library and to read a book about racism.