June 26-July 2 #oklaed News Brief

June 26

The Oklahoman

• Jury finds pickup driver guilty of second-degree murder in Moore High School student deaths

Tulsa World

• Skiatook graduate Anna Woolsey named Miss Rodeo Oklahoma 2022
  

Cherokee Phoenix

• Grand View, Kenwood offer summer lunch programs
  

KTUL 8

• Tulsa teacher surprises former students with high school graduation gifts

FOX 25

• Oklahoma teacher, basketball coach arrested, accused of sexual assault‍
  

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June 27

Tulsa World

• Holocaust education workshops set for July, taking registrations

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June 28

The Oklahoman

• Thousands of Oklahoma kids stayed in virtual school. What will they do next?
• Oklahoma passes $1.5 billion in marijuana sales. But how is the marijuana tax getting used?
  

NonDoc

• ‘Kids are suffering’: School Counselor Corps to expand mental health services
• ‘A waste of time’: Western Heights community frustrated by lack of board action
  

KJRH 2

• Daniel Webster High School added to the National Register of Historic Places
  

KFOR 4

• Investigators find 1,000 bottles of steroids at home of Oklahoma teacher
• Ninnekah coach’s house burns down, truck stolen days after sex crimes arrest
  

KOSU

• Oklahoma lays groundwork to screen early elementary students for dyslexia
  

Inside Nova

• Oklahoma child advocate installed as president of national PTA
  

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June 29

The Oklahoman

• Local organization addresses period poverty through free menstrual products
• Federal aid crucial to OKC schools' $857 million budget
• FFA moving annual convention from Oklahoma City to Tulsa
  

Tulsa World

• State FFA convention will be held in Tulsa
• Oklahoma lawmakers request 209 interim studies

Oklahoma City Free Press

• OKCPS to spend $2 million on revamped school resource officer program
  

KFOR 4

• Free summer meals available at 100 sites across Oklahoma
  

KOCO 5

• 'Like a death in the family': Community reacts to news that NW Oklahoma prison is set to close
  

KGOU

• Teachers’ Retirement System seeing record number of people retiring
  

Public Radio Tulsa

• TPS names new athletics director‍
  

June 30

The Oklahoman

• 'Worst nightmare': Family of Deer Creek High School graduate who drowned seeking answers
  

OSDE

• Over $35 million awarded to 181 school districts for Oklahoma School Counselor Corps

Enid News & Eagle

• Autry superintendent retires in renamed laboratory, leaving legacy of campus program expansion

Owasso Reporter

• Collinsville Public Schools receives $222,000 in counseling funds from OK State Dept. of Ed.
  

Norman Transcript

• County fair dedicated to ag teacher's memory
  

KJRH 2

• Broken Arrow music teacher impacts her students
  

News 9

• OKCPS announces staffing, enrollment update for upcoming school year
• Grant money coming to more than 100 Oklahoma school districts for mental health programs
  

PRNewsWire

• Skydweller Aero Inc. celebrates one year with global headquarters in Oklahoma
  

Education Week

• Four things schools won’t be able to do under ‘Critical Race Theory’ laws
  

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July 1

Tulsa World

• State Education Department awards $35.7M for school counselors
• Bill that would ban teaching aspects of race and gender in Oklahoma schools takes effect Thursday
• Morris High School teacher federally charged with sexual abuse of minors
  

Lawton Constitution

• LPS to hire social workers with state grant funds
• Letting of a little STEAM
  

Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise

• BPS to add school counselors with state aid

Daily Ardmoreite

• Getting ready for back to school: Fuel Ardmore's Stuff the Backpack project well under way
  

Cherokee Messenger & Representative

• Burlington BOE holds June meeting
  

KFOR 4

• Deer Creek Board of Education approves new superintendent
  

KOCO 5

• 'Critical race theory' ban, film incentive expansion among new state laws taking effect today
  

News on 6

• 181 districts across the state get funding for mental health
  

News 9

• Santa Fe South Charter Schools, OCCC embark on expanded collaboration

FOX 25

• New laws from the 2021 session go into effect

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July 2

Sand Springs Leader

• Area middle-school students attend band camp at Southwestern Oklahoma State University