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Oklahoma: Vote on Religious Charter School May Have Been Invalid

Diane Ravitch's blog

The board that cast a 3-2 vote to authorize a Catholic virtual charter school in Oklahoma may have been invalid because a new appointee was not supposed to be seated until November 1 and was not eligible to cast a vote.

Monday’s national headline-making vote to give state sanctioning and Oklahoma taxpayer dollars to a Catholic school may have been invalid.

It turns out the state Attorney General’s Office believes that Oklahoma City businessman Brian Bobek is ineligible to serve on the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board until November.

But an email to that effect was not received by the board’s chairman and executive director until after Bobek cast the deciding vote Monday to approve state sponsorship for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School.

Long-serving member Barry Beauchamp, a retired school superintendent from Lawton who had been allowed to continue serving after his term expired some months ago, was

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Effect & Cause

The Twisting Tail

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

Why should I watch what I say
When you’re not listening either way
And I know that this is true
Because I too was not listening to you


3200BC

The ancient Egyptians use special symbols called hieroglyphs to write on stone, metal tablets, or papyrus


🐫🌓🐪∆WTF😯 OMG🌔🤯 ROTFL💯
🌕FML🆘🍑🍆👽 🌖YOLO 🧟👻IMHO
FYI🧐🐫🌗🤖 IANAL🐫🌘 AFAIK🧑‍⚖️🔨💩
☄️🌚IDC 🙈🙉🙊😏JK😜🌝
🪲🌪️G2G 🦎🦟🗝️🪲TTYL🫥😸🪲
🌞🪽🐫K🍀😻


1836

American artist and inventor Samuel F.B. Morse invents the Morse code system


Morse code may be obsolete
But it lingers in that fearful
Hopefully, anxiety-inducing


1876

Alexander Graham Bell invents the first working telephone
(over seventy years before the first commercial answering machine)


I missed your call
I screened your call
I changed my number
The same rigamarole


The 7 C's of effective communication are
¢l@rit¥, korectness, the ability to be well…

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