November 28-December 4 #oklaed News Brief

November 28

Tulsa World

• Union Public Schools resumes in-person classes, transportation Monday

Tahlequah Daily Press

• Districts can in-school quarantine students exposed to virus
  

KOCO 5

• Edmond schools return to in-person instruction
  

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November 29

The Oklahoman

• On Giving Tuesday, consider all the children

Lawton Constitution

• LPS allowing 25 percent capacity at hoops games
• Central High School Ag teacher selected for national award‍
  

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November 30

The Oklahoman

• Students search for shortcuts as virtual schooling expands‍

Tulsa World

• With new 'language hub,' Cherokee Nation hopes to make ancient language part of everyday life again
• 'It's painful': Tulsa Public Schools' move to return to distance learning 'not something we take lightly,' leaders say
• Pre-K through third grade shifting back to distance learning, Tulsa Public Schools tells parents
  

NonDoc

• ‘The timing was frustrating’: Districts want coordination on state-provided PPE

Cherokee Phoenix

• Education leaders hope to pursue funding for gifted students
  

Tahlequah Daily Press

• Lawmakers prepare for upcoming session as first Senate bill filed
  

KFOR 4

• Mustang Schools superintendent defends decision to employ “In-School Quarantine” pilot program
• Deadline approaching for e3 program at Oklahoma City Public Schools
  

KSWO 7

• Distance learning recommended for the majority of Oklahoma schools

News 9

• In-school quarantine policy draws concern from children’s advocacy group
  

Public Radio Tulsa

• Mustang Public Schools to participate in student quarantine pilot program
  

NPR

• Virtual charter schools are booming, despite a checkered reputation

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December 1

The Oklahoman

• Epic board meeting postponed
• Editorial: Community must rally to help OKC schoolchildren

Tulsa World

• Impact Tulsa wins grant from Gates Foundation to help students finish school during COVID-19
• Tulsa Public Schools seeks nominations for Teacher of the Year

Enid News & Eagle

• EPS teacher of the year nominees have been announced
  

Duncan Banner

• Superintendent: DPS unable to provide in-school quarantine
• Central High’s RJ Curry selected for national award
  

Wagoner County American-Tribune

• Educators Kallie Barnes, Sarah Carter honored with grants
  

News 9

• Teacher Of The Day: Ryann Wilson
  

Public Radio Tulsa

• TPS gearing up for enrollment push for 2021–2022 school year
  

K-12 Dive

• Oklahoma’s state textbook committee approves Discovery Education Science Techbook
  

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December 2

Tulsa World

• Oklahoma Trauma-Informed Care Taskforce creates strategy to rebuild social supports through collaboration to address Adverse Childhood Experiences
• No need to take chances by bringing infected children into schools
• Union Public Schools announces return to at-home learning for students; employee cases hit all-time high
  

Oklahoma Watch

• Epic Charter Schools settles teachers’ 2019 legal claims

NonDoc

• Poll: Voters would support Oklahoma education reform
  

Enid News & Eagle

• Building-level Teacher of the Year choices are among Enid's best

Woodward News

• Quarantine options discussed at special meeting‍

KFOR 4

• Donors provide thousands of coats for students in Oklahoma City
• Mixed emotions as Mustang High School inches closer to in-school quarantine pilot program
  
  

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December 3

The Oklahoman

• Mustang High School to pilot in-school quarantine
• Oklahoma AG weighs in on student discrimination question
  

Tahlequah Daily Press

• Local school COVID procedures vary widely
  

Muskogee Phoenix

• Teen Center adds afternoon tutoring for 7th through 12th grades
  

Purcell Register

• School, virus updates
  

NonDoc

• Mustang High School launching in-school quarantine pilot program
  

Norman Transcript

• NPS updates quarantine guidance, will not adopt in-school quarantine policy
  

KFOR 4

• Mustang Public Schools returning to in-person classes
  

News on 6

• Teacher Of The Day: Tanner Culbreath
  

FOX 25

• 'Our children are not test subjects': Oklahoma Democrats against in-school quarantine
  

KOSU

• Oklahoma students could quarantine together at school in new experiment
  

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December 4

The Oklahoman

• House Democrats doubt safety of in-school quarantine
• Stitt abruptly removes state board of education member
  

Tulsa World

• Gov. Stitt gives the boot to another education board member
  

PRWeb

• Oklahoma adopts TCI’s Bring Science Alive! K-8 programs