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Webster HS sets magnet showcase

By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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A showcase for parents and students interested in learning more about Webster High School's magnet program is set for Thursday.

EDUCATION NEWS
First-year teacher braces for job loss
By SARA PLUMMER World Staff Writer
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It worries Amanda Charvat that her first year teaching at Tulsa Public Schools may be her ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

    School staff moves into new home
By CLIFTON ADCOCK World Staff Writer
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When Jenks Public Schools administration employees first toured what would become their new ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Board to consider teacher job cuts
By ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
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Tulsa Public Schools could cut 225 teaching positions and see class sizes increase next year ...
Friday, March 19, 2010

    Saturday's Oologah-Talala school vaccine clinic canceled
By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
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Today's clinic is set to continue through 7 p.m. A long line of children and their parents ...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Former Tulsa principal convicted
By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer
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A former Tulsa Public Schools principal has been convicted of contributing to the delinquency ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

    Charter schools tested
By ANDREA EGER & SARA PLUMMER World Staff Writers
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Tulsa charter schools are weathering this year's state funding shortfall by slashing spending, ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Treatment continues for 6-year-old with meningococcal disease
By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
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The Oologah-Talala kindergarten student is one of seven from the school district to contract ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

    Higher Education Briefs
By SARA PLUMMER World Staff Writer
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Mayor Dewey Bartlett will be the commencement speaker at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa's ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Oologah-Talala parents concerned about spread of meningococcal disease
By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
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'She is just a very adorable, special and very lovely girl,' said Koua Moua of his daughter ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

    Garrett sees school-plan benefit
By JIM MYERS World Washington Bureau
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Oklahoma school Superintendent Sandy Garrett said Monday she was pleased the Obama administration's ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Rogers County Health Department providing antibiotics today
By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
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A seventh Oologah-Talala student has contracted the disease, state health officials confir ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

    Tulsa Hispanic leaders oppose school bill
By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer
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A bill pending in the Oklahoma Legislature presents an unfunded mandate to public schools and ...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Kellyville students let animals loose in school
By SHANNON MUCHMORE World Staff Writer
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A group of students vandalized Kellyville High School last week by releasing a dozen chicken ...
Monday, March 15, 2010

    OU: No offer of land for medical examiner's office made
By Associated Press
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A University of Oklahoma spokeswoman says the school hasn't offered to donate land for the ...
Monday, March 15, 2010

Obama prepares education overhaul
By PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press
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President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to rewrite the nation's sweeping and controversial ...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

    Obama's education law overhaul to focus on college
By DORIE TURNER Associated Press Writer
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he Obama administration unveiled its plan Saturday to radically change his predecessor's No ...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Small rural schools struggle for survival
By SUSAN HYLTON World Staff Writer
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Many rural schools are finding it hard to stay afloat with sinking revenues from the state ...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

    Skiatook High principal wins annual award
By SARA PLUMMER World Staff Writer
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Skiatook High School Principal Donna Brogan has been named the 2010-11 Oklahoma Secondary Principal ...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Putting down roots in Tulsa
By Staff Reports
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Raesa Abachova (left) and Rauchan Janabergenova, who are visiting from Kazakhstan as guests ...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

    Oologah-Talala students who died Thursday identified
By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
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A 7-year-old boy and 8-year-old girl died Thursday after contracting a rare blood infection ...
Friday, March 12, 2010



AP HEADLINES
44 of 172 Detroit schools slated to close in June
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
DETROIT (AP) -- Doors are expected to shut on more than a quarter of Detroit''s 172 public schools in June as the district fights through steadily declining enrollment and a budget deficit of more than $219 million, an emergency financial manager said Wednesday....

Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers
Thursday, March 18, 2010
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) -- A teacher at a failing school where he and all his colleagues are being fired hung an effigy of President Barack Obama in his classroom, apparently in reaction to Obama''s support of extreme measures to ensure accountability in schools....

Text message dispute triggered brutal Fla. beating
Thursday, March 18, 2010
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The brutal beating of a 15-year-old girl at a Florida middle school was triggered by a text message dispute between the victim and the teenage boy accused punching and stomping on her with steel-toed boots, authorities said Thursday....

Detroit Schools slow to tear down vacant buildings
Thursday, March 18, 2010
DETROIT (AP) -- Owen Elementary, which closed in 2006, stands open to any who dare to take on its dark, winding hallways and shadowy classrooms on Detroit''s southwest side....

Car collides with NJ school bus; Camry driver dies
Friday, March 19, 2010
HILLSBOROUGH, N.J. (AP) -- A car has collided head-on with a school bus in central New Jersey, killing the car''s driver and wounding three people, including two high school students....



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Pay-phone user draws gawkers to rare event
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Agents for IRS are running on auditmatic
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Friday, March 19, 2010

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