Articles tagged with: education
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- Eufaula mayor charged with embezzling $191, suspends police chief
- 1,500 Oklahoma autopsies still pending, including 108 from 2008
- Cherokees ask to intervene in poultry lawsuit
- Tulsa group calls for condemning Creek Nation land
- Two cities wait for Mercury Marine to decide
- Oklahoma female incarceration rate highest in the U.S., almost double national average
From The Tulsa World:
Read the full story »Nearly 200 students attending college on Osage Nation scholarships were told that they would be receiving less money, despite earlier promises that each student would receive $3,500.
Osage Nation Education Department officials have been contacted by angry and worried parents, as well as an unhappy tribal Congressional education committee, after several students reported that scholarships were less than what had been promised.
The claims prompted the committee to call an emergency meeting Wednesday.
From NewsOK:
Read the full story »Oklahoma City’s U.S. Grant High School could face sanctions because of its failure to meet education standards.
U.S. Grant is one of 42 schools in the state on this year’s needs improvement list.
The school is in the Year Four category, meaning it could be subject to restructuring. [...] Schools are placed on the list for not meeting adequate yearly progress, which is based on math and reading scores, percent of students taking state exams and graduation rate for high schools or attendance rate for other schools.
From The Tulsa World:
Read the full story »Oklahoma’s tougher testing standards led to significant decreases in student proficiency rates in reading and math on Oklahoma Core Curriculum Tests for third- through eighth-graders statewide.
A Tulsa World analysis shows that decreases in reading proficiency ranged from 12 percentage points among the state’s third-graders to 22 percentage points among fifth-graders. Math proficiency decreases ranged from 7 percentage points among seventh-graders to 29 percentage points among fourth-graders.
