Charter schools were envisioned as institutions of innovation where teachers could have freedom to test new ways of educating students. However, many contend that the vision was lost when charter school proponents started promoting them as competitors for traditional public schools. As of May 2019, more than 7,000 charter schools existed across 44 states and […]
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Grade schools
Oklahoma’s schools will have a new way to analyze their work and see how they stack up. After going without school report cards for two years, the state board of education unanimously approved a revamped system that launched Feb. 28. Previous school report cards came on a single sheet of paper, with a large, bold […]
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Opportunity overlooked
During his three decades as an educator, Mid-America Technology Center administration superintendent Dusty Ricks said he has seen no educational opportunity in the state that is quite as valuable yet underrated as a local career technology center. “When I was growing up, my parents, teachers and counselors preached to us about the value of a […]
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School dance
The incumbent Having served as Oklahoma state superintendent of public instruction for over three years, Joy Hofmeister said she’s not interested in ushering in new policies, should she be voted into a second term. Rather, she said, she’d like to continue on the path she has been on since 2015 to create better schools that […]
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Native victory
Bella Cornell, 17, remembers the day in middle school when her classmates asked her if she was a cannibal. The only Native American student in her Oklahoma City public school, Cornell was in history class when her teacher began describing Native Americans as savage barbarians who ate human flesh. When her peers asked her if […]
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Runoff is on
With Election Day just around the corner, candidates have amped up their campaigning efforts while politics buffs add their predictions to the fray. Below is a breakdown of the candidates for seven critical runoff races that will appear on ballots statewide Aug. 28. Bill Shapard, a nonpartisan polling expert and founder of the state’s only […]
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The new director of Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth sees unique opportunities for the agency
The new director of Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth sees unique opportunities for the agency that serves as a watchdog group for child welfare.
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State leaders see low education assessment scores as a starting point for the state to close the achievement gap
State leaders see low education assessment scores as a starting point for the state to close the achievement gap.
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Chicken-Fried News: High standards
State education leaders recently submitted a plan to boost high school graduation rates, combat hunger, improve early childhood education and reduce the use of emergency-certified teachers.
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Chicken-Fried News: Exigent educators
Oklahoma recently set another record for the number of emergency teaching certificates it approved.