April 10-16 #oklaed News Brief

April 10

Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise

• School districts ponder legal action over charter funding vote

Poteau Daily News

• Poteau High School band, choir do well at state competition
  

KFOR 4

• Several Oklahoma students win OKC National Memorial & Museum essay contest on power of listening
  

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April 11

Tulsa World

• Editorial: Clawback proposal to Oklahoma's Promise scholarship program scrapped amid constituent pressure

KFOR 4

• Mustang Public Schools sees increase in COVID-19 incidents

April 12

The Oklahoman

• 'Please help us': Oklahoma City schools face urgent complaints, one district on probation
• Investigative audit called for Santa Fe South Charter Schools
• As Oklahoma considers transgender sports law, NCAA issues warning that could threaten WCWS
  

Tulsa World

• Tulsa school board to discuss charter school funding lawsuit; many more districts considering separate legal action
  

NonDoc

• House, Senate ‘a ways apart’ on education budget talks

Tahlequah Daily Press

• DaVinci Institute honors fellows, scholars, and A+ Teacher of the Year
  

McAlester News-Capital

• McAlester schools waives quarantine for exposures
  

KJRH 2

• Oklahoma’s teacher shortage concerning state leaders
  

KFOR 4

• Western Heights holds school board meeting three days after being placed on probation, plans return to in-person learning April 26
  

News on 6

• TPS board members to discuss possible litigation against State Board Of Education
  

KSWO 7

• Comanche County school districts to get roads repaired

KTUL 8

• Oklahoma's schools superintendent talks funding, charter schools
• TPS joins lawsuit over charter schools funding

News 9

• Tulsa, Jenks & Sapulpa school districts to take legal action against State Board Of Education
  

FOX 25

• 'It's not their school:' Western Heights community ramps up calls for resignations
• School districts scramble to estimate fall enrollment

KRMG 102.3

• State Supt supports local districts against governor, state board in charter school flap
  

StillwaterNews.net

• 2021 Ag In The Classroom Contest winners announced
  

BusinessWire

• National Science Teaching Association names 2021 recipients of its teacher awards program‍
  

April 13

The Oklahoman

• Harding Charter Prep students win engineering competition
• Santa Fe South calls audit a 'personally motivated' attack
  

The Black Wall Street Times

• VIDEO: White teacher calls Black student the N-word
  

Woodward News

• After discussion, board votes to join lawsuit
  

McAlester News-Capital

• McAlester Public Schools joins lawsuit vs. state board
  

NonDoc

• OKCPS requests investigative audit of Santa Fe South charter school
  

StateImpact Oklahoma

• Oklahoma City school board calls for investigative audit of Santa Fe South
  

KFOR 4

• Experts: Pre-K enrollment drops across Oklahoma
• State Senate passes bill to add mental health education to Oklahoma schools
  

KOCO 5

• OKCPS ready for young students to return as pre-K enrollment opens
  

News 9

• Caught on camera: Holdenville teacher calls student racial slur during class
• More school districts across Okla. join lawsuit over charter school funding
• OKCPS encourages parents to enroll children in Pre-K programs
• Multiple northeastern Oklahoma school districts to take legal action against State Board Of Education
  

FOX 23

• Local charter school responds to state school board funding decision

FOX 25

• 'The Future Depends on Teachers,' PSA launched targeting teachers amid shortage
• OKCPS encouraging students grades 8-10 to apply for Oklahoma's Promise

People.com

• Teacher wears boxing gloves while ringing bell after last chemotherapy appointment: 'Victory'

Newsweek

• Oklahoma teacher who called student N-word placed on administrative leave‍
  

April 14

The Oklahoman

• Epic Learning Fund to become public; past records still hidden
• Epic Charter Schools to offer settlement to end termination proceedings
  

Tulsa World

• Update: Epic board offers to settle charter termination proceedings; secret Learning Fund to be moved into new school bank accounts
  

Tahlequah Daily Press

• TPS to join lawsuit over state funding
  

Ponca City News

• Ponca City Board of Education meeting

NonDoc

• Epic’s controversial ‘learning fund’ will change, settlement proposed for SVCSB

Journal Record

• Right Thinking: OKC schools in crisis well before pandemic
  

KJRH 2

• Bixby Public Schools updates mask guidelines for elementary, intermediate students
  

KFOR 4

• Why you may never see Epic Charter Schools’ past ‘learning fund’ records
  

KOCO 5

• Oklahoma students create art to honor 168 lives lost in Oklahoma City bombing
  

News 9

• Epic Charter Schools proposes increased transparency to State Board ahead of termination hearing
  

KXII 12

• Carter County school districts joining lawsuit against Oklahoma Board of Education

FOX 25

• 'I'm honestly quite surprised': Santa Fe South superintendent sounds off on audit request‍
  

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April 15

Tulsa World

• Epic Charter Schools board makes 11th-hour attempt to settle termination proceedings looming against online school
  

Oklahoma Watch

• How Epic seeks to resolve contract dispute with Statewide Virtual Charter School Board

Purcell Register

• Joining lawsuit
  

KFOR 4

• Controversial bill diminishing Oklahoma State Auditor’s authority stalled in House committee
  

News on 6

• Epic Charter Schools proposes compromise
  

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April 16

Tulsa World

• Epic Charter Schools slapped with new $10.5 million penalty by state Education Department