Oklahoma laws banning its colleges from teaching about race and sex stereotyping and its public schools from teaching about specified “concepts” about race and sex discrimination were preliminarily blocked by a federal court.
The provisions likely violate due process because they’re vague, Judge Charles B. Goodwin of the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma said June 14. Parts of the laws at issue withstood the plaintiffs’ First and 14th Amendment challenges.
School curriculum has become a hot button issue in Oklahoma. In 2023, the state approved funding the country’s first publicly-funded religious charter school that will be ...