“We have six children. So yes, we’re pro-life.” When I heard her say it, I wondered if we could blame her mistake on Oklahoma’s record cuts to public education. The quote is an example of a non sequitur, a statement that does not logically follow from the previous statement. Since nearly one-fifth of all Oklahoma […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Runoff memory
The success of the “remember in November” rallying cry by Oklahoma education supporters that began in primary elections continued during last week’s runoffs as six of the seven incumbents that voted against the teacher pay raise during 2018’s Legislative system lost. After April’s teacher walkout failed to secure an increase in school funding, education organizers […]
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Taking charge
Like any student who just moved into town, new Oklahoma City Public Schools Superintendent Sean McDaniel is starting this school year as the new kid in class. Though he won’t have to worry about earning good marks in math or science, there are plenty of other ways McDaniel will be tested in his first year […]
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Bright future
In 2019, Positive Tomorrows — Oklahoma City’s only school for homeless children — celebrates its 30th anniversary. The milestone year also happens to be when the school will open doors on its large new facility east of State Fair Park, nearly quadrupling the size of its current building. “The timing is excellent,” said Positive Tomorrows […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Teaching lessons
As the two-week teacher walkout failed to get the increased school funding that it hoped in April, teachers and Oklahoma Education Association licked their wounds around the rallying cry of “Remember in November.” If last week’s primaries were any indication, the education coalition is following through on its call to action. Two of the 10 […]
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Open minds
Anastasia Pittman did not ask for her Mother of Reconciliation label, but she certainly owned it. Pittman was a longtime state representative for majority African-American District 99 in Oklahoma City before her 2014 election to the state senate for District 48. She reached her term limit at the end of the most recent legislative session. […]
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Next in line
Oklahoma City Public Schools’ Board of Education convened May 22 to approve the hiring of the district’s newest superintendent. It has become a fairly common ritual for the state’s largest school district, which has hired 13 different superintendents since 2000. But unlike the July 2016 vote for the last superintendent hired, Aurora Lora, this vote […]
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Coding games
Introduced as a learning tool to get students engaged in technology and engineering, robotics has captivated students of all ages with its hands-on learning and friendly competitions. In Oklahoma’s urban and rural districts, robotics has become the norm. F.D. Moon Academy, a northeast Oklahoma City school for prekindergarten through sixth-grade students, has the building blocks […]
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Nuclear option
He is often called the godfather of alternative rock music, but if a few things go in his favor this year, Tyson Meade could soon be called something very different: United States Congressman. In April, Meade — most known as frontman of the late-1980s and ’90s bands Defenestration and Chainsaw Kittens, which have been cited […]
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Walk, run
The moment Lauren Richter, a fifth-grade teacher in Shawnee, decided to run for office came during the fourth day of the statewide teacher walkout, when educators and their allies continued to demand additional funding for public schools. Educators filled the state Capitol to capacity. Thousands of teachers remained outside the building. “There was no one […]