The Foundation for Oklahoma City Public Schools (FOKCPS) is seeking community partners to help place science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) centers in all of the district’s elementary schools before classes start Aug. 14. Though foundation partners have contributed more than half the money needed, there is still a significant gap to fill. The initiative […]
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Cristo Rey Oklahoma City Catholic High School gears up to offer a unique education model in 2018
Cristo Rey Oklahoma City Catholic High School gears up to offer a unique education model in 2018
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Embark Rideshare provides metro workers with commuting options
The new program provides vehicles for carpools or vanpools for a monthly fee and saves users money.
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Cristo Rey Oklahoma City High School set to open fall 2017
The school will provide a private secondary education to low-income students.
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Chicken-Fried News: Wacky math?
One week after cutting the ribbon on its new OKC facilities, Boeing served employees with layoff notices.
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Boeing bucks
Credit: Mark Hancock On Jan. 22, the trust passed a measure to increase the amount originally put forth and another to let the city negotiate an amount for a second round of job relocations. Both require approval from Oklahoma City Council. In the summer of 2011, Boeing announced it was closing its C-130 modernization plant […]
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Flying high
Earlier action is expected for an incentives package involving 550 Boeing jobs already coming to OKC from Long Beach, Calif. In March, the city’s Economic Development Trust will likely receive Boeing’s application for the second part of that incentives package. Boeing announced Jan. 4 that it will close its Wichita facility, which employs about 2,160 […]
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Bummer in the city
In the annual speech, slated for Thursday at the Cox Convention Center, da mayor is expected to recount some of the wonderful things that have happened in OKC over the past year, from continued development of MAPS 3 to Boeing bringing more than 1,000 jobs here. While that’s all fine and dandy, CFN holds little […]
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CFN Quote of the Week
“It’s also an economic development issue. As we recruit companies like Boeing and others, trust me, there are large amounts of gay and lesbian employees in all of these organizations, and they want to know that Oklahoma City celebrates its diversity, that Oklahoma is going to protect all of its population. And I think that […]
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Lift off
How about a good word for the properties designer for a change? Lyric Theatre’s mildly entertaining, if tepid production of “Boeing Boeing” by Marc Camoletti is set in the early 1960s, so properties designer Elizabeth Rescinito has assembled a highly authentic collection of spot-on furniture — a sunburst clock, lava lamp and a spiffy retro […]