State Superintendent Ryan Walters speaks during an Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting April 24 in Oklahoma City. Walters on Monday celebrated the defeat of a lawsuit that sought to overturn academic standards he proposed for social studies education. (Photo by Nuria Martinez-Keel/Oklahoma Voice)
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma County district judge threw out a lawsuit challenging the validity of new academic standards for social studies.
District Judge Brent Dishman decided Friday that the group of parents, grandparents and teachers who filed the lawsuit failed to cite any applicable law or rule that was broken when the Oklahoma State Board of Education approved the new standards this year…