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Oklahoma school chief cites Harris’s ‘mass chaos’ in request for over $474 million – Washington Examiner
Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters argued Vice President Kamala Harris’s leadership on the border has offloaded the burden of illegal immigration to school districts.
Walters requested that the Biden-Harris administration reimburse over $474 million to Oklahoma schools for “the financial impact borne by Oklahoma taxpayers for education of illegal immigrant children.” The letter, issued Tuesday, comes as Walters deemed Harris as “the number one threat to parents and kids” in the United States.
“This open border policy has cost our state $474 million to educate illegal immigrant children,” Walters said on Fox News’s Fox and Friends First. “We have fentanyl pouring across into our schools, and we even had a terrorist that came across in our open border policies, that was arrested in one of our schools. Her open border is causing mass chaos into our schools, into our economy and into our society. We never had these problems under President Trump. We never had these issues in our schools and in our society. We had a closed border, safer schools, safe border. This is absolutely essential that her administration is held accountable. The border czar has failed us.”
Walters’s comment on Harris as “the border czar” comes after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a messaging bill in July condemning both the vice president and the Biden administration’s handling of border security. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), former President Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate, has sought to portray himself as the new border czar should he and Trump win.
The Oklahoma superintendent explained that the federal government mandates school districts to educate any child who will attend their school, regardless of whether they are legal immigrants or not. As such, schools are required to “quickly” allocate resources originally intended for students already enrolled, with one district even getting “100 a week” in illegal immigrants attending their district.
“So all of the resources that were there, prepared for our students in Oklahoma, are now being diverted to the students of illegal immigrants,” Walters said.
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The superintendent’s letter is not the first time Walters has feuded with the Biden administration, as he directed all of his local school districts not to comply with the administration’s rewrite of Title IX because it puts “women in danger.” He has also sought a “complete overhaul” to Oklahoma school curriculum with the goal to “inspire in students a love of country and a proper understanding of the American founding.”
Illegal immigration has been a major topic ahead of the 2024 presidential election, including the possibility of non-residents of the United States voting. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow Virginia to carry out a purge of an estimated 1,600 people from its voter rolls to prevent ineligible noncitizens from voting, a decision Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) deemed “a victory for commonsense and election fairness.”
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA (KOKH) — The Oklahoma City Fire Department responded to a home fire late Tuesday evening, around 10:42 p.m.
According to OKCFD, fire could be seen from a window of the home located in the 4200 block of N. Phillips Avenue.
Firefighters were able to rescue an adult female from inside the home. No injuries were reported in connection with the fire.
Investigators believe that the fire may have originated from an outlet near the refrigerator that had a power strip plugged in that was supplying multiple appliances.
There was also no smoke detector present within the home.
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NORMAN — The Sooners were behind the eight ball for much of Tuesday’s game against Oral Roberts.
But one swing of the bat got them in a more favorable position.
Shortstop Jaxon Willits blasted a grand slam in the sixth inning to give No. 14 Oklahoma its first lead before eventually winning 7-6.
The Sooners trailed by as many as five runs before they rallied late.
In the first inning, Oral Roberts’ Cooper Combs hit a two-out grand slam to give the Golden Eagles a comfortable cushion. OU infielder Deiten Lachance got the Sooners on the board in the second inning with a solo home run, but ORU responded with a solo shot of its own in the next frame.
The Golden Eagles made it a 6-1 run game in the top of the fourth, and they appeared to be on cruise control. But in the bottom of that frame, OU’s rally began.
Dasan Harris made it a four-run game again with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth before Camden Johnson hit a sacrifice fly of his own in the fifth.
Then, in the sixth, the Sooners took their first lead of the game.
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Harris singled before Kyle Branch and Connor Larkin walked to load the bases. Willits then swung at the first pitch he saw, sending it well over the right-center field fence.
Neither team scored after Willits’ home run, as OU relief pitcher Xander Mercurius retired nine ORU batters in a row to seal the Sooners’ one-run win.
Michael Catalano started on the mound for Oklahoma, but his outing was short-lived — he gave up four earned runs on two hits and five walks in 1 ⅓ innings.
After coach Skip Johnson relieved Catalano in the second inning, six different OU arms entered the game. Reid Hensley collected the win, while Mercurius got the save.
OU improved to 28-12 overall with the win, while Oral Roberts dropped to 23-15. The Sooners are 7-3 in midweek games this season, and they clinched the season sweep of the Golden Eagles on Tuesday.
Next, the Sooners will hit the road for a three-game series against Auburn. The Tigers, ranked No. 11 by D1Baseball, are 10-8 in SEC play and took two of three games against Florida over the weekend.
The series will open on Friday, and first pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.
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NORMAN — After an up-and down week that saw Oklahoma drop the lone Bedlam match of the season, and then split two tight games with Arkansas before blowing out the Razorbacks on Sunday, the Sooners remained No. 1 in the NFCA/Go Rout coaches’ poll released Tuesday.
But there’s far from a consensus.
Oklahoma received 12 first-place votes — the same total they had last week — but five other teams received first-place votes.
Texas Tech remained No. 2 with four four-place votes and Alabama No. 3 with seven. Nebraska moved up two spots to No. 4 with four first-place votes, followed by Florida with two and UCLA with two.
Texas is No. 7, followed by Tennessee, Arkansas and Florida State.
Texas A&M, the Sooners’ opponent for the final regular-season weekend in two weeks, comes in at No. 11.
Other SEC teams include Georgia at No. 15, Mississippi State at No. 17 and LSU at No. 20.
OU hosts the Georgia Bulldogs in a three-game series beginning Friday.
Other Sooners’ opponents this season in the polls include No. 14 Duke, No. 18 Oklahoma State, No. 19 Arizona, No. 24 Arizona State and No. 25 Washington.
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Oklahoma also remained in the top spot in the D1Softball poll, with Alabama No. 2 there followed by Texas Tech, Nebraska at Texas.
The Sooners dropped a spot in the Softball America poll, with Nebraska elevating to No. 1 behind the two-way stardom of former OU standout Jordy Frahm (formerly Jordy Bahl).
Frahm is 13-4 with a 1.36 ERA and 157 strikeouts in 118 2/3 innings in the circle and hitting .440 with 16 home runs and 42 RBIs. Another former Sooners player, Hannah Coor, is among the Cornhuskers’ regulars as well.
The Sooners have 158 home runs, just three away from tying their own season record in the category, but UCLA has closed the gap in a major way, sitting just four behind Oklahoma.
OU freshman sensation Kendall Wells leads the nation with 34 home runs, three ahead of UCLA’s Megan Grant. Wells tied Jocelyn Alo‘s program record for home runs in a season with her home run in Sunday’s win.
The Sooners host Arkansas-Pine Bluff at 6 p.m. Tuesday in their final non-conference game of the season before opening the series against Georgia at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Love’s FIeld.
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