Karl Springer and Brian Staples visitedwith Jesse Jackson at Douglass earlierthis year. Credit: Shannon Cornman District officials did not disclose details of that probe, but said the results were being turned over to the Oklahoma County District Attorney, the state Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Education. As Oklahoma Gazette first reported in […]
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Fired Douglass teachers who raised the allegations, however, contend the district officials had ignored their complaints for three years. Oklahoma Gazette first reported the allegations in June, when district officials launched the probe at the request of former teachers and the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Sandra Park, […]
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“We have retained an investigator,” said Tammy T. Carter, general counsel for the school district. School officials said a private attorney is conducting the probe, but declined to release further details. Some parents have complained that their children are being advanced through the school system without being educated. They have accused Principal Brian Staples of […]