The state ranked 18th in economic security, with a grade of “B-.” Among the scores, Oklahoma women overall make 76 cents, African-American women make 64 cents and Hispanic women make 46 cents for each dollar white men in Oklahoma make. We ranked 41st in leadership. Only 36.4 percent of statewide elected executive seats and 13.4 […]
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Degrading the grade
Most districts have opted not to release the grades until the State Board of Education certifies them at its Oct. 25 meeting. Board members voted last week to halt its issuance so agency officials could review the evaluation system, which many district superintendents claim is flawed. The one exception in the metro, Putnam City Schools, […]
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Potter hater
It showed I was allergic to grass, pollen, cottonwood — things like that. It did not turn up positive for fantasy film franchises with deep mythology and invented languages, but only because such technology did not exist in the 1970s. Remember James Cameron’s “Avatar” from 2009? You know, the 3-D epic about the blue cat […]