Deborah Gist

The Tulsa Public Schools’ Board of Education formally accepted the resignation of Superintendent Dr. Deborah Gist during a special meeting Wednesday, a day before the State Board of Education will decide the fate of TPS’s accreditation status.

The superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools is stepping down amid an accreditation battle between the district and State Superintendent Ryan Walters.

On Thursday, Oklahoma’s State Board of Education voted down an appeal request by Tulsa and Mustang Public Schools to make their cases as to why they shouldn’t be accredited with warning.

In a tense meeting Thursday, Oklahoma’s State Board of Education voted to approve the accreditation of more than 1,000 school sites across the state. But they spent a lot of that time lobbing thinly veiled political attacks at certain schools — and each other.

A school board meeting in Tulsa ended with three members walking out and ending a quorum Monday night.

Rhode Island Education Commissioner Deborah Gist has started contract negotiations to become the schools superintendent in her hometown of Tulsa,…