Showing posts with label Charter Schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charter Schools. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Reason to question state audit of Epic

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[Guest post by Jonathan Small] I’m a CPA with many years’ experience in government finances and I have had the opportunity to review the r...
Friday, October 16, 2020

Why is Epic popular?

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[Guest post by Jonathan Small] Ask the average citizen what they know about Epic Charter Schools, an online public K-12 school, and you’ll t...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Most say EPIC's safety, academic quality better than their prior school

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"An independent survey conducted by TPMA of Indianapolis for the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board found parents come to ...
Friday, January 31, 2020

Bernie Sanders reveals teacher union goals for Oklahoma

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An email from the Sanders campaign, April 2018 [Guest post by Jonathan Small] In a recent column published by The Oklahoman, U.S. Se...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Oklahoma charter school success hiding in plain sight

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"Oklahomans, in recent weeks, have been buffeted by report after report, including results from the National Assessment of Educational ...
Friday, November 8, 2019

Academic results show why families voting with their feet

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[Guest post by Jonathan Small] Government officials often refer to government spending as an “investment” to suggest a business approac...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Could school funding reform increase integration, test scores?

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"If you actually want to best serve low-income urban kids," says Matthew Ladner of the Arizona Chamber Foundation, "yes you ...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

My assigned district school? Some say no thanks

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School choice is further along in some other places than it is in Oklahoma. For example, the Raleigh News & Observer reports tod...
Friday, June 7, 2019

As public charter schools come under attack, Oklahoma parents and school officials tout success

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Ray Carter has the story .
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Study finds school choice improves mental health

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Staci Elder Hensley has the story .
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Epic mom: 'The anxiety is gone, the stress is gone, the meltdowns are gone'

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Bethany Cowan's 12-year-old son, Jacob, attends Epic Charter School. She told the News on 6: “There was a lot of anxiety, every day w...
Saturday, October 13, 2018

Bullied Oklahoma student finds relief in online charter

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"When he was in seventh grade, my son was the victim of extreme bullying," Christie Britton of Amber writes today in The Oklahoma...
Monday, September 10, 2018

OKC charter school drawing families downtown

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"Located in the heart of the city's downtown, [John Rex charter] school is viewed as a catalyst for convincing families to move int...
Monday, April 30, 2018

An uncomfortable truth

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Some public schools allow Black student-athletes to play for their majority-white high schools even though they can't read or write at ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Heavy-handed rules keep minority operators from opening charter schools

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Informative post by Greg Forster here .
Monday, March 12, 2018

David Holt, school choice, and diversity

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State Sen. David Holt (R-Oklahoma City) discusses  charter school legislation at  a  meeting of the Oklahoma School Choice Coalition on  S...
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Why do Oklahoma families choose virtual charter schools?

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The Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board (OSVCSB) recently commissioned a study on "why families choose to enroll in virtual...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Pastor asks OKC school board to embrace tolerance

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"All that we are asking," Pastor Sam Storms recently told the Oklahoma City school board, "all that Mr. Humphreys desires, i...

Oklahoma charter school teacher earned $106K last year

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EPIC Charter Schools' highest-paid teacher made $106,324 in 2016-17, the Tulsa World reports .
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Trump favors educational choice

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