Jennifer Palmer
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Half didn’t have any A.P. classes at all.
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Students graduating from a high-poverty high school often feel like they don’t belong at a 4-year university, and professor Paul Ketchum wants to prove them wrong.
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The school has operated for three decades without an employee handbook or agency rules prohibiting sexual harassment or abuse.
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When state auditors visited the campus of the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics for a routine review of its finances four years ago, female staff members saw an opening.
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A committee asked the Education Department to require Ten Commandments posters in every classroom and that students take a Western civilization course for graduation.
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Signing bonuses of as much as $50,000 are what Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters said is needed to attract new and retired teachers to the classroom. That’s also what makes his new bonus plan a risky policy.
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At the end of January, Oklahoma’s new Attorney General, Gentner Drummond, announced he would change course on a high-profile debacle involving Secretary of Education and now State Superintendent Ryan Walters — and lots of federal money.
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An Oklahoma Watch Report
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When Kevin Stitt hit the campaign trail in 2018, education was very much on the minds of voters. Thousands of Oklahoma teachers had descended on the state Capitol to strike, closing many schools for 10 days to draw attention to school funding needs.
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In Stillwater, school library books are the latest moral outrage to dominate school board meetings.