Oklahoma City – House Democrats released several statements about House Bill 4465, which sets the State Department of Education budget for Fiscal Year 2023H.B. 4465 increased common education funding by half a percent. In final House passage on Wednesday (May 18), the measure prevailed on a …
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C. Vivian Stringer has been a trailblazer, serving as a role model to many Black coaches and players throughout her 50-year career.
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A school system in suburban Kansas City is eliminating over 100 jobs, including kindergarten aides and library clerks. Oakland, California, is closing seven schools. Other districts around the country are merging classrooms, selling buildings and leaving teaching positio…
Shawnee Public Schools remain embroiled in a sexual misbehavior scandal involving a former coach, and assertions school administrators disregarded or covered-up allegations and intimated teachers, parents and victims. Early this month, state Senator Shane Jett, R-Shawnee, requested a multi-c…
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — New Oklahoma coach Brent Venables respects what the Sooners accomplished in recent years. Lincoln Riley compiled a 55-10 record in five seasons before leaving to become head coach at Southern California, and quarterbacks Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray won Heisman Trophi…
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University School of Law has announced the receipt of a $120,000 grant from the Kirkpatrick Foundation to grow the law school’s Animal Law Program. The Program was launched in 2019 through the generous support of the Foundation with the goal of OCU Law becoming …
Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor is leading 15 other state attorneys general in opposition to the Biden Administration’s new regulatory proposal regarding federal grants for public charter schools. In a letter to the U.S. Department of Education, the attorneys general argue two of the…
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence has announced the recipients of its 2022 Academic All-State Awards. The 100 top public high school seniors, selected from 397 nominations statewide, hail from 75 schools in 67 Oklahoma school districts.
Rose State College President Dr. Jeanie Webb is one of 13 college presidents recognized by the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (PTK) with the Shirley B. Gordon Award of Distinction. The prestigious award is given to community college presidents and CEOs who have shown support of student succes…
There is no legal requirement forcing Oklahoma public schools to allow transgender individuals — biological males who identify as female — to have unfettered access to girls’ bathrooms, according to Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor. “Oklahoma Public Schools are not required to allow b…
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic ushered in what may be the most rapid rise in homeschooling the U.S. has ever seen. Now, even with schools back open and vaccines available, many homeschooling families are sticking with it. Data obtained by The Associated Press found homeschooli…
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden will present its third annual, adult-only evening event series, Sip and Stroll beginning April 21 and continuing through September 15, from 6-10 p.m. Sip and Stroll, presented by COOP Ale Works, occurs every third Thursday.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University will host Palestinian-American writer Naomi Shihab Nye on Wednesday, April 6 for the annual Thatcher Hoffman Smith Poetry Series. Her events will be held in the Kerr McGee Auditorium of Meinders School of Business at NW 27 and McKinley Avenue on the O…
OKLAHOMA CITY - The public is invited to attend the reopening of the newly renovated Belle Isle Library, 5501 N Villa Avenue, in northwest Oklahoma City. The inaugural weekend will take place April 8 – 11.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the farthest star yet, a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos.
Edmond, Oklahoma — The esteemed piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons has recognized Edmond’s Herbert W. Armstrong College as an all-Steinway school. Armstrong College Music Director Ryan Malone and piano faculty Mark Jenkins officially accepted the certification from Edmond Music general m…
Oklahoma City – Governor Kevin Stitt released the following statement after the Oklahoma Empowerment Act, Senate Bill 1647, was defeated in the upper chamber of the Legislature:
Rep. Goodwin leads as House Passes Tulsa Reconciliation Education Scholarship, George Young will shepherd in State SenateStaff Report, The Oklahoma City Sentinel Legislation to require descendants of victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre to have priority selection for the Tulsa Reconciliation E…
STILLWATER – The International Ocean Discovery Program has chosen Stillwater as one of a handful of communities to host a national science exhibit that reveals the secrets being uncovered beneath the ocean floor.
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma City Innovation District, Exxon Mobile and Oklahoma State University will host the inaugural “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” in Oklahoma City at the OSU Discovery Center on Thursday, March 31. The event was originally scheduled for Feb. 25, but was reschedu…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Senate narrowly defeated a voucher bill that would allow public funds to be used to pay for a student's private-school education.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — After years of inaction, charter schools would gain a foothold in Kentucky and be supplied with a permanent funding stream under a bill that won passage Tuesday in the state House.
STILLWATER – American Farmers & Ranchers Cooperative (AFR) has donated $13,000 to complete the $100,000 commitment set by the Oklahoma 4-H Foundation for naming opportunities in the New Frontiers Agricultural Hall on the Oklahoma State University (OSU) campus.
OKLAHOMA CITY – The State Senate has advanced to the House a pair of measures from Senator David Bullard, R-Durant.One is designed to help schools better address the needs of students struggling with mental health issues. The other would create a task force to empower officials to creat…
A group of public-school entities, including one whose national affiliate called for parents to be investigated under federal anti-terrorism laws, has released a poll claiming the overwhelming majority of Oklahoma voters oppose school choice. But that finding is contradicted by their ow…
Recent financial estimates produced by the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) are leading a top lawmaker to question whether the agency has become politicized under the leadership of State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister. That question is being raised even as …
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The University of Oklahoma will accept more nursing students in an effort to offset a shortage of nurses in the state.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Schoolchildren in California, Oregon and Washington will no longer be required to wear masks as part of new indoor mask policies the Democratic governors of all three states announced jointly on Monday.
Governor Kevin Stitt recently appointed Sarah Lepak to the State Board of Education, filling the vacant seat for Congressional District 2 created by the resignation of Bill Flanagan. Lepak’s appointment requires confirmation by the Oklahoma State Senate. “I am pleased to nominate Sarah Lepak…
OKLAHOMA CITY – Two Oklahoma teachers have been named recipients of the prestigious Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). PAEMST is the highest national recognition a K-12 mathematics or science educator may receive for outstanding teaching.
From a city reporter’s notebook, news of note … Around America, February is annually recognized as Black History Month. At Rose State College, the annual Black Male Summit is set for Thursday, February 24. Also at Rose State, today (Saturday, February 19), the 2022 Minority-Owned Small Busin…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco residents recalled three members of the city's school board Tuesday for what critics called misplaced priorities and putting progressive politics over the needs of children during the pandemic.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Another chapter opens in the saga of San Francisco's scandal-plagued school board Tuesday as voters weigh in on whether to recall three members after a year of controversy that captured national attention.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid a steady drip of damaging headlines, pressure is building for Congress to pass legislation that would curtail lawmakers' ability to speculate on the stock market.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A trail of red flags about his behavior toward women followed Matthew Harris on an academic journey that took him to three of the nation's most prestigious universities — Duke, Cornell and then the University of California, Los Angeles.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Representatives from UScellular and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Oklahoma County are hosting their third annual UScellular Black History Month Art Contest.
OKLAHOMA CITY – In 2021, the Metropolitan Library System reached a record-breaking 2.7 million digital book checkouts. This milestone illustrates the continued growth and importance of library digital lending of e-books and audiobooks, especially after a prolonged period of building closures…
The Oklahoma City Public Schools have canceled in-person classes for Wednesday (February 2). A shift to virtual learning is planed. In other storm-anticipating news, representatives from the City of OKC and partner agencies will give winter weather updates via Zoom at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday…
OKLAHOMA CITY - Recently, two Classen SAS High School at Northeast students, Aishwarya Swamidurai and Darianna Littlepage-Bugs, were honored with National Academic and Athletic Excellence awards.
OKLAHOMA CITY – The late Thomas “Tom” Edward Barnett, an Oklahoma City oilman, has donated more than $1million through his estate to Oklahoma City University’s Meinders School of Business.
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), an organization that teaches college students core conservative principles, has announced the winner of the 2022 Conservative Book of the Year award: Victor Davis Hanson's The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are…
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago schools will expand COVID-19 testing and have standards to switch schools to remote learning under a hard-fought tentative deal approved by teachers' union leaders. But parents and some union members questioned whether the bitter fight over pandemic safety protocols th…
When Chicago teachers went on strike last week to protest COVID-19 safety protections in the nation's third-largest school district, Democratic Party officials leapt into action.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma City University will host an immersion-style STARTALK Russian language summer camp for high school students July 10-31, followed by 10-month free Russian language classes via Zoom from Aug. 1 through May 31, 2023.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City University School of Law has announced two new faculty members, Phyllis Taite and Timothy T. Hsieh.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Dale Rogers Training Center (DRTC) and Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma (Goodwill) are hosting a one-of-a-kind job fair on Thursday, Nov. 18, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at DRTC in Northwest Oklahoma City.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Officials with the Oklahoma City University Doctorate of Physical Therapy program have scheduled an open house to give prospective students an opportunity to learn more about the program.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma City school district violated state law by firing six teachers who refused to wear masks, according to Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt.
The City Sentinel, Staff Report OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma State Legislature has settled on Legislative district lines for the 2022 elections in both the House…
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Five Oklahoma City teachers who were fired after refusing to wear masks have added wrongful termination to their pending lawsuit against the school district.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The University of Oklahoma on Friday announced that all employees will be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccination by Dec. 8.The university must comply with President Joe Biden’s executive order mandating vaccinations for federal employees, or risk losing hundreds of m…
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