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Oklahoma Political Themes: Fire Rural School Superintendents and Overpaid State Physicians
Studio 46 is a weekly podcast in Edmond, Oklahoma, moderated by Brian Bush of Oklahoma Christian University and published by The Edmond Sun newspaper. In the podcast’s most recent episode, on January 7, 2011, Brian hosted Kenny Goza. Goza was one of five Republican candidates vying for the vacated Oklahoma state senate seat of newly…
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Virtual K12 Enrollments in White Oak PS, Oklahoma
The December 24, 2010, NewsOK article, “Year in education defined by reform, budget cuts and virtual schools,” reveals a burgeoning online enrollment of K-12 students in northeast Oklahoma: One district — White Oak Public Schools in northeast Oklahoma — lost accreditation for a matter of minutes when the state Board of Education voted to strip…
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New Oklahoma Leaders Mistakenly Think Testing Focus Key to Educational Improvement
According to a news article in today’s Daily Oklahoman, “new Oklahoma Governor-elect Mary Fallin has appointed Phyllis Hudecki [to] serve as Oklahoma’s secretary of education.” Fallin will be sworn in as the first female governor in Oklahoma history on January 10th. Hudecki’s title may be a little confusing to state outsiders, since she will not…
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Legal Fight Over Publicly funded Charter Schools and Online Education in Oklahoma
Charter schools are controversial, as is the provision of publicly-funded online education options for K-12 students nationwide. In her outstanding book, “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,” Diane Ravitch explains how the charter school movement has become (for SOME individuals) a rallying cry and political objective replacing the call for educational…
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Working hard to get the public excited about MINIMUM standards
This evening my wife and I have been finalizing the “application packages” for our 6 and 9 year old daughters to transfer into another public elementary school next year, which is an arts integration school. In searching for my oldest daughter’s last standardized test score report, we ran across the following letter from last year…