Bills Oklahoma would limit OSBE authority to revoke licenses for teachers

The state senator Adam Pgh, R-Edmond, proposed three draft laws to limit the authority of the State Council of Education on the teaching licenses and the accreditation of the school district.
SB 797 would outline the specific reasons for the Education Council to revoke or suspend the teacher’s license and impose the process processes regarding the trial.
SB 707 and SB 699 aim to establish clear orientations and calendar for school accreditation assessments and to ensure an appropriate process for districts facing potential discounts.

By a series of draft laws, a prominent Republican State senator works to establish orientations and to limit the capacity of the Oklahoma State Council. teaching licenses and you go down Accreditation state from school districts.

The Committee of the Senate of Education has unanimously passed on Tuesday by three draft laws, author of his president, Senator Adam Pgh, R-Edmond, who could create a specific language regarding the processes of the State Education Council in taking into account Be in danger.

Senate’s draft law would limit the capacity of Oklahoma State Education Council to revoke teaching licenses

SB 797 would provide specific reasons for which the Oklahoma State Education Council can revoke or suspend a teacher’s license. The reasons included in the draft law include: a willing violation of federal or state law, abuse or neglect of a child, moral turpitude, incompetence in fulfilling the debt or neglecting any professional debt.

Last year the Council voted to revoke the License of Teaching A Summer BoisierA Former High School Professor NormanHe pushed back against the draft law of 1775, a controversial law of the state that aimed at teaching the theory of critical races. In 2022, Boisier covered the bookshelves in the classroom with red slaughter paper.

At that time, the superintendent of state schools, Ryan Walters, said that Boisier tried to adopt students with a “liberal political agenda” and asked that the teaching license should be permanently revoked.

In July the Board of Directors Rhas been the request to revoke an ardmore Teacher’s teaching certificate of a hearings officer after the educator commented on a Facebook post about assassinations Former US President Donald Trump’s attempt.

A person posted on Facebook saying he would give the movie $ 500 because he tried to “save” us from Trump. In the post, Scott commented: “The same! You want to have a better scope.”

PUGH’s draft law would prohibit the Board of Directors to return or summarize a teaching certificate before carrying out an individual procedure for revocation or other action for the teacher.

The Board of Directors should provide a notification to a teacher and the school district at least five days before the suspension or revocation. In accordance with the proposed law, the Board of Directors should take measures on a delivery license within 60 days of notifying notifications.

“This draft law aims to provide a proper process for the teacher and school district to be announced when a teacher is being investigated,” said Pgh at the Commission meeting.

Currently, there is no chronology in state statues to clarify when an investigation of a public teacher begins when he is judged and closed, said Pgh.

“When the teachers were notified about the investigation, the school district must place them immediately on leave,” Pgh said. “However, I do not take those teachers from salaries. There is a very high school district in Oklahoma, who had a teacher on September, paying to not be in class.”

Senate laws are trying to put guidelines on school accreditation status

Author of Pugh, SB 707 It would direct the Education Council to adopt standards for accreditation of school districts, rather than for schools, as it is now. The draft law would require evaluations of the school districts starting with the 2025-26 school year to be carried out every four years and would prohibit the Board of Directors to interrupt that four-year cycle.

Under SB 699The Board of Directors must create rules that establish due process procedures, provide a notification and opportunity for a hearing before changing the status of accreditation of a school place or a school district.

If it had passed, the school districts would have been given the possibility to request a hearing before the Council takes measures on the classification of a school place or a district with deficiencies, warning, probation or non -accredited status. The districts must receive a notification, by post, of their right to a hearing in accordance with the proposed legislation.

“(Accreditation) should be a hammer,” said Pgh. “This is not the accreditation point.”