Education;News

The new John Marshall High School will begin the fall school year with a new principal, effective today. Corey Harris, a Tulsa native, replaces Trina Liles, who has been appointed to another district school.   New Oklahoma City Public Schools Superintendent John Q. Porter, who officially began work July 2, announced the administrative changes at […]

Oklahoma State University /A&M Regent Burns Hargis turned in a letter of resignation today to Gov. Brad Henry.   The school’s official statement, released today, said Hargis is resigning in order to pursue the open presidential position. Former president David Schmidly resigned earlier this spring to be the University of New Mexico president.   Hargis, […]

The University of Oklahoma announced today the Board of Regents named a new director and chief curator of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at their June meeting held in Ardmore.   Coming to OU from the Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas, Ghislain d’Humières is a former assistant director at the Fine Arts Museums […]

When Andy Coats began his tenure as dean of the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1996, there was a lot of room for improvement: The building was old and in desperate need of a renovation and students’ test results weren’t impressive ” about 70 percent passed the bar exam. Morale was low and […]

Oklahoma City Public Schools will open next fall with a new deputy superintendent, the district announced Thursday.   OKCPS named Memphis, Tenn., school administrator Brenda Cassellius to the position, in which she will head up  “planning, development, assessment, and improvement of instruction and educational programs,” according to a release.   ACCOMPLISHMENTS Cassellius has been serving […]

Oklahoma City University’s Wimberly School of Religion will begin offering a master’s of divinity degree in the fall semester of 2007. Currently, only two universities in Oklahoma are accredited by The Association of Theological Schools to offer the degree. Despite an abundance of undergraduate programs at Christian colleges and universities in Oklahoma, there has been […]

The Oklahoma City Public Schools district garnered a clean audit for the fourth year in a row, district officials announced Tuesday. The report refers to the 2005-2006 school year.   According to the audit, performed by public accounting firm Cole & Reed, revenues for the school year were about $255 million, and the fund balance […]

A Yukon eighth-grader joined the ranks of geography gurus this week, making it among the top 10 finalists in the National Geographic Bee in Washington, D.C.   Lakeview Middle School student Tyler Bowen, 14, advanced to Wednesday’s final round of the annual bee after acing a preliminary contest Tuesday against 54 other state- and territory-level […]

After more than a decade of planning, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher will join black and white male leaders and a handful of women honored in paint next month in the state Capitol rotunda. The late Chickasha native, who paved the way for desegregation in higher education in Oklahoma, will be the first black woman featured […]

State superintendent Sandy Garrett released a statement today in response to a recently publicized report criticizing Oklahoma’s education system, giving the state’s academic achievement an “F.” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce “Leaders and Laggards” report ranked Oklahoma 42nd out of all states and Washington, D.C. Garrett criticized it for using old data ” from 2003 […]