Editing Muskogee, Oklahoma (section)

==Education==
[[Muskogee Public Schools]]<!--UNI 20970--> includes the vast majority of the city limits and a large portion of [[Muskogee County, Oklahoma|Muskogee County]]. [[Hilldale Public Schools]]<!--UNI 14520--> covers a small southern portion of the city limits and some parts of the County south of Muskogee. [[Fort Gibson Public Schools]]<!--UNI 11970--> includes some areas in the east.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st40_ok/schooldistrict_maps/c40101_muskogee/DC20SD_C40101.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st40_ok/schooldistrict_maps/c40101_muskogee/DC20SD_C40101.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=2020 Census- School District Reference Map: Muskogee County, OK|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-03-19}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st40_ok/schooldistrict_maps/c40101_muskogee/DC20SD_C40101_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref> Muskogee is also home to the [[Oklahoma School for the Blind]], a special institution for meeting the educational needs of blind and visually impaired students residing in the state of Oklahoma. Previous institutions that where located in the city were [[Harrell International Institute]] and its successors, Spaulding Institute and Spaulding Female College,<ref name="Roger1995">{{cite book |last1=Rogers |first1=Will |title=The Papers of Will Rogers: The early years, November 1879-April 1904 |date=30 November 1995 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-2745-3 |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l_y-exxOwhoC&pg=PA95 |access-date=16 November 2024 |language=en}}</ref> as well as Nazareth Institute.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Muskogee - The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture|url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=MU018|access-date=2022-02-14|website=okhistory.org}}</ref>

Muskogee has four institutions of higher education: the public four-year [[Northeastern State University]], the public two-year [[Connors State College]], the public [[Indian Capital Technology Center]] and the private four-year [[Bacone College]], which is the oldest college in the state of Oklahoma.

In 2004, civic rights lawyers took on the case of 11-year-old Nashala Hearn who sued the Muskogee, Oklahoma, Public School District for ordering her to remove her [[hijab]] because it was violative of the school's dress code. She refused to submit and was subsequently suspended twice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/30/us.school.headscarves/|title=U.S. to defend Muslim girl wearing scarf in school|publisher=CNN|date=March 31, 2004|author=Terry Frieden|access-date=October 21, 2019}}</ref>  The court-ordered agreement reached by the Justice Department with the school board permits Nashala, and any other child in Muskogee whose religious beliefs and practices conflict with the school dress code, to receive an accommodation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2009/06/04/nashalas-story |title=Nashala's Story|date=June 4, 2009|author=Jesse Lee |publisher=The White House (President Obama Archives), June 4, 2009|access-date=June 17, 2020}}</ref>