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This legislation would provide an essential tool to reach experienced teachers and help entice them back to the classroom. Oklahoma has a teacher shortage crisis. How do we entice them back to the ...
An Oklahoma City teacher penned a brutally honest letter about the state of education that is catching the attention of many on the internet. Steven Wedel, a high school English teacher in ...
The Office of Accountability was created in 1990 to oversee school performance and the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation was created in 1995 to establish standards for teacher candidates. In 2012, Governor of Oklahoma Mary Fallin signed SB 1797 into law, consolidating the two agencies into the single Office of Educational Quality and ...
In the first week of February, teachers staged "walk-ins" at schools and some protested at the West Virginia Capitol. [12] The strike proved successful, and inspired those in other states to strike as well. [13] In early April, Oklahoma became the second state to strike, making it the first time a teacher's strike was held in the state since ...
upon request of the local school board, to act on behalf of the public schools of the state in the purchase of transportation equipment; When local school boards proposed structure changes to their school buildings, the Board has the authority to review the preliminary plans for new construction and major alterations. [10]
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Gains from last teachers' strike in Oklahoma, in 1990, which resulted in an agreement to lower class sizes, expand kindergarten programs, and increase teacher wages were later reversed due to budget cuts. [6] The decline in funding and subsequent decline in the quality of public education has resulted in the expansion of charter schools in the ...
Oklahoma's Department of Education ordered every teacher in the state to have a Bible in their classroom and to teach from it, in an announcement on Thursday that challenges U.S. Supreme Court ...