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Gist gone

Happy news late this afternoon that Deborah Gist has resigned as superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools. Gist resigns as the state's largest school district faces a hearing on Thursday at the State Board of Education on the loss of its accreditation. The threat to pull accreditation stems from poor academic...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 22, 2023 9:08 PM

Tulsa Schools one of 7 US districts to allow Chinese Communist Party's Confucius Classroom program

Tulsa Public Schools made the Mail Online on July 30, 2023, as one of 7 school districts in the US with active contracts for Confucius Classrooms, a propaganda outreach of the Chinese Communist Party. China is funding America's public schools to the tune of $17 million dollars, it has been...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 4, 2023 5:55 PM

Chinese Communist-funded program on Tulsa school board agenda

The Tulsa Public Schools Board of Education, at a special meeting tomorrow, Thursday, July 14, 2022, at 1 p.m., will consider accepting a grant from a non-profit funded and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party for a Chinese language learning program at Booker T. Washington High School. Here is...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 13, 2022 9:10 PM

Oklahoma school board filing period 2019 <s>underway</s> complete

UPDATE 2019/12/03: Here is the final list of candidates who filed for the February / April 2020 school board and municipal elections in Tulsa County. The following school board seats had only a single candidate file (Office No. 5, unless otherwise noted): Broken Arrow: Jerry Denton Glenpool: James Fuller Jenks:...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 2, 2019 8:10 PM

Tulsa teachers leaving for other Oklahoma districts, lower pay

A significant number of the 35% of Tulsa Public Schools who left the district in the last two years did not head to greener pastures out-of-state, but to other Oklahoma school districts with comparable pay, according to an investigation led by Tulsa World education reporter Andrea Eger. Teachers interviewed for...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 4, 2018 8:38 PM