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School choice advocates scored major and incremental victories in Oklahoma this week in their efforts to secure legal permission to use public education funds to pay for sending students to private schools, including religious ones.
A rule used by the state Department of Education to withhold information for most of Oklahoma’s public school districts remains in place five months after it was repealed.
Find out the high school graduation rate for your school district or charter school.
Most people who enroll in community college want to earn a bachelor’s degree. But in Oklahoma, only about two in 10 community college students get that degree within six years. Many are “lost to higher education.”
Efforts to make community colleges more accountable for the academic success of their students has led to a national change in the way data is collected.
A federal civil rights agency has opened its fourth investigation into Oklahoma City Public Schools. The investigation examines whether the district applied different treatment, exclusion or denial of benefits to students with disabilities.
A Republican senator proposes a complicated, six-part plan to give Oklahoma teachers a $10,000 pay raise without a tax increase, despite the state facing a $900 million budget shortfall.
Another $19 million could be cut from Oklahoma’s public schools as early as next month, potentially raising the total mid-year revenue reduction to $66 million.
Check this interactive table to learn what percentage of graduating seniors in your school district needed remedial courses in college.
Many high school graduates in Oklahoma arrive on college campuses and find out they aren’t ready to tackle math, science, reading or writing courses. They must take, and pay for, non-credit remedial classes to learn content they should have learned earlier.