Tulsa Public Schools

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.

Next Thursday, the State Board of Education will consider changing the accreditation status of the state’s largest school district, Tulsa Public Schools. This comes after over a year of remarks from State Superintendent Ryan Walters targeting the district.

Tulsa’s city leaders are concerned about the situation between Tulsa Public Schools and Oklahoma 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.

Oklahoma’s State Board of Education will meet Thursday morning to discuss a wide array of topics related to trans bathroom bans, critical race theory and more.

A week after Oklahoma’s State Board of Education downgraded Tulsa Public Schools for violations of the state’s so-called Critical Race Theory ban, TPS is asking for its decision to be reversed.

A raucous State Board of Education meeting saw emotions bubble up over politics, race and personal accusations amid accreditation of state schools.

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.