{"id":29138,"date":"2018-01-09T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T17:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=29138"},"modified":"2018-01-09T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T17:20:20","slug":"parents-still-fighting-to-remove-humphreys-from-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2018\/01\/09\/parents-still-fighting-to-remove-humphreys-from-school-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Still Fighting To Remove Humphreys From School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29141\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/01\/20180109-JohnRex_WEB1.jpg\" alt=\"John Rex Elementary in  downtown Oklahoma City. \" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/01\/20180109-JohnRex_WEB1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/01\/20180109-JohnRex_WEB1-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/01\/20180109-JohnRex_WEB1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/01\/20180109-JohnRex_WEB1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Emily Wendler \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Rex Elementary in  downtown Oklahoma City. <\/p>\n<\/div><p>A group of about 20 parents asked Oklahoma City Public School Board members on Monday to kick former OKC Mayor Kirk Humphreys off the board of a local charter school.<\/p><p>Humphreys recently <a href=\"http:\/\/kfor.com\/2017\/12\/10\/flash-point-team-discusses-special-session-sen-al-franken-resigning-and-jerusalem-as-israels-capital\/\">equated homosexuality to pedophilia<\/a> while on a Sunday morning talk show, and many John Rex Charter School parents feel his comments were homophobic, and disqualify him from serving on the charter\u2019s board of directors.<\/p><p>Jaricha Scales says his words go directly against the charter school\u2019s creed her children are supposed to follow.<\/p><p>\u201cHow can we hold our students accountable, and not our board members?,\u201d Scales asked during public comment.<\/p><p>Spokesperson for OKCPS, Beth Harrison, says while the district does authorize the charter contract for John Rex, its board has very little influence over whether Humphreys stays or goes. Harrison says that decision would be up to the John Rex Board of Directors.<\/p><p>Carrie Jacobs, who is on John Rex\u2019s Board, says discussions are ongoing about what, if anything, should happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of about 20 parents asked Oklahoma City Public School Board members on Monday to kick former OKC Mayor Kirk Humphreys off the board of a local charter school.Humphreys recently equated homosexuality to pedophilia while on a Sunday morning talk show, and many John Rex Charter School parents feel his comments were homophobic, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29143,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29138\/revisions\/29143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}