The state board has a special meeting scheduled for Wednesday when they will consider further action after originally closing schools until April 6 in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
While the state has already received permission to skip end of the year tests and district leaders have been told not to worry about this year’s school report card, the other important functions of a school are not as easy to dismiss.
Oklahoma’s public schools are unlikely to reopen this school year, multiple officials with the state Department of Education have told The Frontier.
Joining the majority of other states, the Oklahoma Board of Education approved closure of all public schools across the state for at least the next three weeks in response to the spread of COVID-19.
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Oklahoma’s Department of Education is telling schools not to worry about assessment benchmarks, attendance-based funding or other requirements when considering whether to close in response to the growing threat of COVID-19.
Now a multicultural high school of nearly 1,400 students, Northwest Classen of the 1960’s was seen as a haven for white families looking to escape neighborhoods undergoing desegregation efforts.
Epic’s penalty of more than half a million dollars is 10 times more than any penalty issued over the past three years, according to documents obtained by The Frontier.
