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Updated at 3:53 AM
Fundraising efforts up at charter sites

By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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Tough economic times in public education have local charter schools trying new fundraising efforts and pinching pennies.

EDUCATION NEWS
TPS adds swine-flu vaccine clinics
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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Tulsa Public Schools announced Friday the dates of added H1N1 vaccine clinics for students ...
Saturday, November 21, 2009

    OCU receives $1 million from late wife of local jeweler
By AP Wire Services
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Oklahoma City University says it will create an endowed chair that will be funded with a $1 ...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Tulsa schools announce H1N1 vaccine dates
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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The district is receiving shipments of vaccine from the state, as well as some from the Tulsa ...
Friday, November 20, 2009

    Revamp planned at Union
By CLIFTON ADCOCK World Staff Writer
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The structure of Union Public Schools may look quite different in three to five years, with ...
Friday, November 20, 2009

OU chemistry employee charged with arson
By MICHAEL KIMBALL NewsOK.com
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The fires were set Sept. 8, 10 and 11 in the chemistry annex on the Parrington Oval, according ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

    CareerTech to offer voluntary buyouts to employees
By BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau
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The Oklahoma Board of Career and Technology Education on Thursday approved a voluntary buyout ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Retired Pocola teacher dies while trying to kill armadillo
By Associated Press
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Authorities in Le Flore County say a retired Pocola High School teacher was killed when he ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

    OSU hosts tobacco-related illness awareness event
By AMANDA O'TOOLE World Correspondent
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Sixteen mannequins dotted the lawn near Oklahoma State University’s student union, representing ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

TPS educated on extended-learning
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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The extended-learning-time concept that Tulsa Public Schools is considering for three middle ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

    Educators plead for funds
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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State schools are facing a funding emergency, area superintendents told the Oklahoma State ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

OSU treats elephant involved in accident
By Staff Reports
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Kamba, a 29 year-old elephant, wandering away and was hit by an SUV on a highway near Enid ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

    Crisis funds for education sought
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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The Oklahoma State Board of Education on Tuesday called on the state Legislature and Gov. Brad ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Board approves teacher pay hikes
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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Salary increases for teachers and a plan to slash spending both got the go-ahead from the Tulsa ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

    Oklahoma education board calls on governor to address funding
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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“I move we pass a resolution to say it is an emergency. There is no reserve fund we can look ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

OSU Foundation names new chairman
By SHANNON MUCHMORE World Staff Writer
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The Oklahoma State University Foundation has named Barry Pollard of Waukomis as its new ch ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

    Tulsa to consider lengthening middle school day
By MATT BARNARD World Staff Writer
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The district will host a community forum Wednesday where representatives from the National ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Alliance seeks turkey, ham donations
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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The Christian Ministers Alliance is conducting its annual Thanksgiving meal drive for low-income ...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

    Funding crisis looms
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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Tulsa Public Schools' monthly funding from the state came in $1.1 million below projections ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Area districts may see shortfalls by the end of the school year
By TIM STANLEY, SARA PLUMMER and CLIFTON ADCOCK World Staff Writers
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Area school districts say theirmonthly state funding shortages donot mean immediate changes, ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

    Oklahoma City School District faces funding cuts
By JESSE OLIVAREZ NewsOK.com
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A shortfall in state revenue will cost the Oklahoma City School District $1 million a month ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009



AP HEADLINES
Chicago police: No homicide in schools chief death
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago police said Wednesday that tests have revealed gunshot residue on the hand of Michael Scott - the strongest evidence yet that the president of the city''s school board took his own life....

NY officer hurt when 2 buses, patrol car collide
Thursday, November 12, 2009
NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) -- Authorities say an officer was seriously injured when two school buses carrying students and a police patrol car all collided in New York''s Hudson Valley....

5 Long Beach students arrested in alleged groping
Saturday, November 21, 2009
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school....

Report finds wide disparities in gifted education
Saturday, November 21, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) -- When Liz Fitzgerald realized her son and daughter were forced to read books in math class while the other children caught up, she had them moved into gifted classes at their suburban Atlanta elementary school....

Judge tells Chicago to let students transfer
Monday, November 16, 2009
CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal judge says Chicago Public Schools must arrange for the immediate transfer of students who want to leave a South Side high school after an honor student''s brutal beating death....













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