News
Clifton Adcock
Oklahoma has been considered a leader in early childhood education, consistently topping national rankings for accessibility and accountability in that realm.
Sunday 19 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: schools
Getting schooled
The state gets an ‘E’ for effort, but no gold star in the Race to the Top competition for early childhood education funding.
News
Clifton Adcock
Oklahoma has been considered a leader in early childhood education, consistently topping national rankings for accessibility and accountability in that realm.
Making the grade
State education officials plan to employ a letter-grade system for assessing schools.
News
Clifton Adcock
A strategy to give Oklahoma public schools and school districts letter grades hopefully will be “transformative” to the state’s education system, state Superintendent Janet Barresi said.
No school takeover
Commentary
Karl Springer
I want to directly address the people of Oklahoma City and explain my opinion on the potential state takeover of our schools on the state’s priority list: It is a terrible idea.
Bully pulpit
Oklahoma gets a starring role in a controversial documentary.
News
Phil Bacharach
Ty Field-Smalley had had enough of being bullied at his school in Perkins. Slammed into lockers. Shoved into a garbage can. Chocolate milk dumped on his head in the cafeteria.
Making the grade
Head of the class
A handful of OKC-area schools make Newsweek’s list of top high schools in the nation.
News
Gazette staff
Several Oklahoma City metro schools were named by Newsweek as among the 1,000 best high schools in the country.
Academic achievement
After nearly 25 years, Edna Manning is retiring as president of the state’s premier high school for science and mathematics.
News
Susannah Waite
After nearly a quarter century leading the prestigious Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics, Edna McDuffie Manning is retiring this month as president of OSSM’s president.
To the letter
The OKC school district begins investigating charges of grade-tampering by a high school principal.
News
Jerry Bohnen
The Oklahoma City school district has quietly begun investigating allegations of falsification of attendance records and grades leveled by former teachers, employees and students against the principal of Frederick A. Douglass Mid-High School. The disclosure came following the June 4 district board meeting in which a former teacher and an official of the Oklahoma City NAACP made second appearances bringing the allegations to the board’s attention.
