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Pay bump: Sand Springs’ board of education voted 3-0 Monday night to approve a one-time retention stipend for all district employees. As approved, all current employees will receive a 5% stipend based on their base pay, provided that they agree to let the district know in writing by March 25, 2025, if they will not be returning for the 2025-2026 school year. Board members Bo Naugle and Tracy Hanlon were absent.
Information session: The Oklahoma State School Board Association is hosting a free online information session at 6 p.m. Thursday for people considering running for a school board seat in 2025.
Registration is available online at ossba.org/getonboard The filing period for the 2025 school board races is Dec. 2-4.
Among the school board seats scheduled to come before local voters in 2025 are Districts 2 and 3 for Tulsa Public Schools, Districts 2 and 5 for Glenpool Public Schools and seat 5 for Bixby, Catoosa, Jenks, Owasso, Sand Springs, Skiatook, Sperry and Union. People are also reading..
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Wednesday in Bartlesville High School’s cafeteria commons. The district is hiring for both certified and support positions, including bus drivers, substitute teachers and paraprofessionals. Resource fair: Broken Arrow Public Schools will host a community resource fair from 4-7 p.
m. Tuesday at 210 N. Main St.
The event will have representatives from more than 30 community agencies and translation services will be available. Transition fair: The Owasso Area Transition Team will host a transition fair from 5-7 p.m.
Thursday in the Ram Cafeteria of Owasso High School’s East Campus for special education students and their families. More than 40 agencies and community partners are slated to attend the free event, including representatives from the Department of Rehabilitation Services, Tall Grass Prairie Guardianship, Special Olympics, Tulsa Community College and Thunderbird Youth Academy. At the movies: On Nov.
17, Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, the Tulsa Press Club and the Tulsa World are co-sponsoring a free screening of “Educating Oklahoma: Keeping the Promise of Public Education.” The 59-minute documentary is scheduled to start at 6 p.m.
at the OSU-Tulsa Auditorium and will be followed by a panel discussion. Attendees are encouraged to register in advance at https://tinyurl.com/OklaEdDoc College Board kudos: Eight Tulsa-area high schools were recently recognized on the College Board’s Advanced Placement School Honor Roll.
In order to qualify, high schools must have 40% or more of their most recent senior class sit for at least one Advanced Placement exam during their high school career, have at least 25% of their most recent senior class score a 3 or better on at least one exam and have at least 2% of their most recent senior class sit for five or more exams over the course of their high school career with at least one taken as either a freshman or sophomore. This year’s Tulsa-area honorees are Cascia Hall, Bishop Kelley, Dove Science Academy, Booker T. Washington, Edison, Bartlesville, Holland Hall and Jenks.
Bartlesville, Bishop Kelley, Booker T. Washington, Cascia Hall and Dove Science Academy also received the AP Access Award, which is presented to schools where the percentage of students sitting for Advanced Placement exams who are from low income or underrepresented communities mirrors the school’s overall student demographics. Instructional shift: Epic Charter Schools are not in session Monday.
School board calendar: The boards of education for Allen-Bowden, Berryhill, Broken Arrow, Claremore, Collinsville, Coweta, Glenpool, Jenks, Liberty, Mounds, Owasso, Sapulpa, Skiatook, Sperry, Union and Verdigris are scheduled to meet Monday. The boards of education for Lone Star, Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences and Wagoner are scheduled to meet Tuesday, as is the Statewide Charter School Board. The boards of education for Bixby, Epic Charter School and Tulsa Legacy Charter School are scheduled to meet Thursday.
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