Seventy-five percent of African-American male high school students in the Oklahoma City Public Schools district were suspended at least once in 2012.
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Chicken Fried News: 10 days?!
Students at OU are giving up drinks of all kinds in the name of helping others gain access to clean water.
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Chicken-Fried News: Mama Bare Ass?
Noble Public School students say Superintendent Ronda Bass, aka “Mama Bear Ass,” humiliated them.
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Chicken-Fried News: Teachers needed
Oklahoma school districts are having trouble finding teachers.
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LIFE FOOD & DRINK
LIFE FOOD & DRINK District 21, the restaurant at The Francis Tuttle School of Culinary Arts, will bring culinary students and foodies alike a treat this month. As part of its 2014 Guest Chef Dinner Series, chef Kurt Fleischfresser will offer a glimpse into the foods and ingredients that influence his favorite menus. Alongside Fleischfresser, […]
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School’s in
Senate Bill 573, if passed with updated language recommended by a working committee convened by Gov. Mary Fallin with a grant from the National Governors Association, could make Oklahoma a model for national charter school law, said Russ Simnick, senior director of state advocacy and services for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Oklahoma […]
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Bricktown rocks
The Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma is more than its nickname, The School of Rock. The downtown school offers a real education in entrepreneurship, business management, music theory, performance and personal growth and even offers certified degree programs.The Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma is more […]
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Letters to the Editor: March 25, 2014
Learning to read is the single most important part of an education because we learn most everything else by reading. Clearly, there is a transition when we are learning to read and then reading to learn. I am sure that the timing of the transition is different among students and having a single test after […]
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BREAKING: Moby to headline ACM@UCO Rocks Bricktown festival
Grammy-nominated Richard Melville Hall, aka American songwriter, musician and world-class DJ Moby, will perform a DJ set 10 p.m. April 11 at the Chevy Bricktown Events Center. His performance caps off the free, fifth annual event that features performances of more than 70 students from the Academy of Contemporary Music at University of Central Oklahoma […]
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1″><span style=" Times New Roman”,”serif”;mso-fareast-Times New Roman”; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ES-BO”> Unclear on the concept Police finally arrested William Footman, 55, in October as the person who somehow managed to swipe inside-front-door mats from at least 37 New York City banks between March and May 2013. No money was ever taken, and some banks were […]