The House Common Education Committee approved bills to ban sexually explicit content from school libraries and to move state testing to the month of May, among others. (Photo by Kyle Phillips/For Oklahoma Voice)
OKLAHOMA CITY — A House committee on public schools advanced bills on Wednesday to move annual state testing to May, to increase teacher training time and to ban sexually explicit materials from school libraries.
Reading, math, science and U.S. history tests, usually administered each year in March and April, would take place only from May 1-31 under House Bill 4359. Rep. Anthony Moore, R-Clinton, said he wrote the measure to give students more time to prepare for end-of-year tests…