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Oklahoma Teacher's Retirement System (OTRS) is the pension program for public education employees in the State of Oklahoma. As of June 30, 2014, the program had nearly 168,000 members. [ 1 ] Public education teachers and administrators are required to be OTRS members; support staff can join voluntarily. [ 1 ]
OPM has total jurisdiction over state employees that are in the classified service and very limited jurisdiction over unclassified service employees. Classified employees are all state employees and positions which are subject to rules of OPM and the decisions of the Oklahoma Merit Protection Commission. This is as opposed to the unclassified ...
The Oklahoma Merit Protection Commission (OMPC) was an independent quasi-judicial agency of the government of Oklahoma established to protect the integrity of state’s merit system utilized by state agencies and their employees. The Commission and the Office of Personnel Management acted independently forming a “checks and balances” method ...
Oklahoma state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters speaks during a special meeting of the state Board of Education to consider revoking the license of a teacher from the Western Heights district ...
The number of educators leaving the profession has increased, while enrollment in Oklahoma colleges of education declined 86% between 2008 and 2021, the most of any state, an analysis by Penn ...
Earlier this year the Oklahoma Rural Association (ORA) released a study that found the unintended consequences of that law were severe. It raised borrowing costs for municipalities, adding an ...
The State Board of Education, the governing body of the Department, is composed of the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction and six members appointed by the Governor of Oklahoma with the approval of the Oklahoma Senate. The State Superintendent, in addition to serving as chair of the Board, serves as the chief executive officer ...
House Bill 2678 prohibits the appointment of a local school board member to the Oklahoma State Board of Education, which supervises the state’s public education system. The bill passed with ...