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Tennessee's network of county health departments assures all residents have access to a variety of local health services intended to maintain or improve health. Services include wellchild exams, fluoride varnish applications, immunizations, family planning, control of sexually transmitted diseases, nutrition counseling, the Women, Infants and Children program, children's special services ...
The Department was established through the Mental Health Law of 1953, although publicly supported services to Oklahomans with mental illness date back to before statehood: the first facility in Oklahoma for the treatment of individuals with mental illness was established by the Cherokee Nation, called the Cherokee Home for the Insane, Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, it was built outside the city of ...
In July 2021 the Oklahoma State Board of Education adopted the first set of rules to implement HB 1775. The rules called for a school district found in violation to have their accreditation downgraded to “accredited with deficiency” and for an employee found in violation to have their teaching license suspended. [8]
In Arkansas, the state has begun taking over small rural school districts and opening D.C.-based charter schools in their place. Gone are the local school boards and the community voice.
The department is led by the Secretary of Health and the Commissioner of Health. Oklahoma law requires the Commissioner of Health to have professional expertise as any of the following: 1) an actively licensed physician (MD/DO), 2) a doctoral-level degree holder in public health or public health administration, 3) a masters' degree holder with a minimum of five years experience in ...
Opinion: Proposed education rules' real purpose is to shut down Oklahoma schools, create chaos Our schools are full of wonderful teachers, and I believe in the abilities of our students.
Only a quarter of high schools met the state's requirement of offering AP classes last school year, according to an Oklahoma Watch analysis.
Training is gradually becoming available in mental health first aid to equip community members such as teachers, school administrators, police officers, and medical workers with training in recognizing, and authority in managing, situations where involuntary evaluations of behavior are applicable under law. [7]