The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted last week 4-3 to recommend school districts follow a new COVID-19 alert system, but stopped short of making it mandatory.

It was a move which left El Reno Public Schools Superintendent Craig McVay puzzled about the state's leadership considering the constant rise in Oklahoma’s coronavirus cases over the past two months.

“I have always been a proponent for local control but I felt like there are school districts that are put in incredibly bad situations that needed the guidance from the State Board of Education.

The agency overseeing the state’s virtual schools joined the legal battle to pry free some of Epic Charter School's financial records.

With a 4-0 vote, the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board recently approved filing an amicus brief to side with the State Auditor and Inspector in its case against Epic’s management company, Epic Youth Services.

An amicus brief is a legal document from a third party that provides information relevant to the case.

The Oklahoma Education Association’s national parent, the National Education Association, is known for bizarre actions like working to give boys access to girls bathrooms and endorsing Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. Recently the OEA added to the bizarre by trying to give the impression that public schools are receiving only half of Oklahoma’s education-related federal COVID funding. Any suggestion to that effect is patently false. 

Texoma:
Lake level normal. Water temperature 80 degrees.

Striped bass good on Alabama rig, hair jigs, live shad, sassy shad, top water.
Catfish fair on chicken liver, punch bait, shad.
Crappie fair on hair jigs, minnows.

Fishing is good early mornings and anglers should use top water lures when surface feeding is present and transfer to slabs and down rigging umbrella rigs as the morning
progresses. Top water action has been good on the Denison Dam. Channel cat are being caught on baited holes in shallow water.