Oklahoma students, parents testify on school bullying

Staci Elder Hensley has the story.

Webster High student arrested after bringing gun to school

FOX 23 has the story.

Cashion police investigating after student allegedly makes threat against high school

KFOR has the story.

Teachers don’t live by bread alone

"Public school teachers are paid more than other teachers and have better benefits and job protection," Greg Forster writes. "Yet private school teachers report higher job satisfaction on a variety of metrics."

Only a third of Tulsa Public Schools juniors ready for college or career

The Tulsa World has the story.

Teens arrested after threatening to shoot up OKC school, kill principal

FOX 25 has the story.

Missouri district starts four-day school week

"Teachers were in favor of the change," Jared Leone reports.

Students see the benefits from it, too. "It’s definitely been a big change, but I think most of the students like it better," student Heather Weaver told the Sedalia Democrat. "We have time to do our homework and projects, and it’s nice to have the extra day to work on them."

Student found with loaded gun at Owasso High School

KRMG has the story.

Voucher regulation reduces quality of private school options

Corey DeAngelis discusses his new study here.

School with security officers and cameras adds guard shack

Other than that, it doesn't resemble a prison whatsoever. The News on 6 has the story.

Oklahoma lawmaker holds interim study on school bullying

"The Oklahoma Youth Risk Behavior Survey found 40,000 high school students said they were bullied at school—although only around 4,700 cases of bullying by a student were reported to the State Department of Education," KFOR reports. "Thousands of students said they've planned suicide."

OKC charter school drawing families downtown

"Located in the heart of the city's downtown, [John Rex charter] school is viewed as a catalyst for convincing families to move into the growing number of apartments and condos being built in the area," The Oklahoman reports. "Last year, 28 percent of John Rex students came from the downtown attendance boundary. This year, John Rex will serve more than 600 students with another 500 on a waiting list, according to school officials. Students living inside the school's downtown attendance boundary are offered automatic enrollment, and while that includes some low-income neighborhoods beyond downtown, it also includes residential developments that can cost as much as half a million dollars."

Oklahoma senator says bullying is a problem

"You don’t have to look past Facebook to understand what a massive problem bullying is in our culture and within our schools," says state Sen. Rob Standridge (R-Norman). "We must not sit by and let another child take their life because we failed to adopt policies that could have prevented such a desperate act."