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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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State Superintendent Ryan Walters is again taking aim at teachers’ unions, this time with the announcement of an Oklahoma State Department of Education public awareness campaign he says highlights teacher unions’ positions on issues.
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Kindergarten and first-grade classes across Oklahoma likely will be required to meet the state’s class-size limit for the first time in a decade when...
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A new report from the Oklahoma State Department of Education shows 30,000 teachers have left the profession over the past six years. The report seeks to...
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The State Department of Education is asking lawmakers to increase education funding by a total of $440 million next year. Included in the agency’s...
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Public school teachers are watching closely as Oklahoma gubernatorial candidates promote and debate their plans for improving health care, tax policy...
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Oklahoma has, in recent years, gained national attention as a center for earthquakes. But a different kind of seismic shift hit the Sooner State this…
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According to an editorial in The New Yorker this week, Tuesday’s Oklahoma primary elections “show the lasting impression of the teacher walkout.”The…
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It appears that the historic raise promised to Oklahoma’s teachers may be in trouble.As The Guardian reports, despite promises made by state lawmakers to…
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From Texas Standard . Teachers have walked off the job in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma – and there are rumblings that Arizona could be next....