Robby Korth

Oklahoma City Public Schools is offering a $3,000 stipend for teachers who speak the most common second languages in its classrooms.

Epic Charter Schools board late Wednesday ended its relationship with the for-profit management company created by its founders.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt can now consider a measure banning COVID-19 vaccine and masking requirements for unvaccinated people in schools or on college campuses.

As the academic year winds down, schools are already looking toward the next one. It’s bound to be more normal. There’s also bound to be thousands of new teachers in Oklahoma’s classrooms.

On Monday evening, Oklahoma's State Board of Education rescinded a recent controversial resolution. The move to equalize charter and traditional public school building funds without controversy follows action by the state legislature.

A budget deal expected to soon get the final stamp of approval from Gov. Kevin Stitt includes a number of increases for common education.

As the 2020-21 school year winds down, Oklahoma educators are already looking forward to next fall.

State schools superintendent Joy Hofmeister is optimistic for the road ahead, thanks to COVID-19 vaccines. She said vaccinations offer a clear hope that the next school year will be normal.

It had been well over a year since I’d gotten a trim. And it showed.

My hair was the longest it had ever been in my life. Normally, when it goes over my ears that’s the sign I use to visit a barber. But because of COVID-19 and health professionals urging me to stay home as much as possible, I didn’t get it cut. It grew, grew, grew in the interim. 

By April 2021, it was down to my shoulders. But getting vaccinated meant it was time for a cut. 

A group of Republican lawmakers have proposed a school funding plan that will nullify a controversial settlement announced by Oklahoma’s State Board of Education and fix funding disparities between charter and traditional public schools.

A recent resolution announced by Oklahoma’s State Board of Education will transform education funding in Oklahoma by equalizing funding for charter and traditional public schools.

Lindy Renbarger had to reinvent everything.

The principal of Calumet Elementary is accustomed to doing it all. In her decade at the helm of the school with less than 200 students she’s taken it from a school that scored a “C” on the state report card to regularly getting an “A.”

As the fall 2020 semester ends, Oklahoma teachers are burnt out and discouraged by a semester disrupted by COVID-19. That's according to results of an Oklahoma Education Association survey that measured teacher morale during the pandemic.