The #Oklahoma SC blocked on Tues what would have been the nation’s first #religious charter #school, delivering a setback to a #conservative movement that has increasingly fought for #public dollars to go toward religious #education.
The case is likely to be appealed, potentially pushing it toward #SCOTUS, whose conservative majority has broadly embraced the role of #religion in public life & signaled an openness to directing #taxpayer money to #ReligiousSchools.
The proposed school, St. Isidore of Seville #Catholic Virtual School, was pitched as an online #CatholicSchool for students in rural areas & throughout the state of #Oklahoma, w/ #religious instruction woven throughout the #curriculum.
“#Oklahoma Sup Court blocked on Tues what would have been the nation’s 1st religious charter school, delivering setback to conservative movement that has increasingly fought for public $ to go toward religious educ.
..likely to be appealed, potentially pushing it toward SCOTUS whose conservative majority has broadly embraced the role of religion in public life and signaled an openness to directing taxpayer money to religious schools” #legal
In the latest installment of Oklahoma's elected officials not having the necessary background to do their jobs, we have this:
The Satanic Temple plans to place ministers in Oklahoma schools if new bill becomes law
Of course Oklahoma legislators don't want those chaplains in schools. And, it apparently never occurred to them that allowing one religion means allowing ALL religions. I don't even think this is some misguided 1st Amendment challenge. It's just ignorance, ignorance that doesn't belong in public office. #Oklahoma#FirstAmendment#ReligiousFreedom#SatanicTemple
Today in Labor History May 5, 2018: Capping several weeks of teacher unrest across the country, public educators in Arizona won raises of 10 to 20 percent. Just prior to this, Oklahoma teachers struck for nine days and won roughly $6,000 in annual increases. And before that, teachers in West Virginia, won a five percent raise after their nearly two-week walkout. However, in almost all of the teacher strikes that occurred that year, the unions negotiated sell-out contracts that gave workers a fraction of what they demanded.
Today in Labor History April 14, 1935: The Black Sunday dust storm swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This was one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl. 4 years later, on this same date, John Steinbeck published his classic working-class novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about Dust Bowl refugees in California.
This has to be one of the most impressive sunrises I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot!
Christmas morning 2020, and one of the best gifts that year was this stunning sky. Brief but gorgeous, complete with a sun pillar caused by ice crystals suspended in the cold air.
"Oil-producing red states like #Texas and #Oklahoma led the nation in wind energy generation in 2023.
#California and Texas also led in #solar generation growth over the last decade: Such generation increased 371 percent since 2014 in California and more than 7,000 percent in Texas."
"High winds and heavy rains both play their parts in severe storm damage, but #hail is the biggest single component, accounting for 50% to 80% of the total annually.
As the climate has warmed, there’s been an increase in the ingredients that make up #HailStorms.
States prone to severe storms like #Oklahoma and #Nebraska already have some of the highest #insurance costs in the nation, rivaling Florida’s and higher than California’s."