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• First-year Tulsa teachers face job cuts March 20, 2010
  TULSA — It worries Amanda Charvat that her first year teaching at Tulsa Public Schools also may be her last."Anytime you’re in your first year at any job you’re worried of getting cut,” said Charvat, a fifth-grade teacher at Skelly Elementary.District officials will present a plan to the school board at its Monday meeting that could eliminate 225 teachi […]
• Jenks Public Schools gets into new offices March 20, 2010
  JENKS — When Jenks Public Schools administration employees first toured what would become their new workplace, what they found wasn’t pretty.Inside, green, brown and gold carpeting was coated in the smell of stale cigarette smoke — remnants of the ’70s when smoking was allowed indoors.But, this week, when the employees made the move, they found things had ch […]
• UCO students help the community March 20, 2010
  University of Central Oklahoma students joined other metro-area university and high school students in the volunteer Flipside Project at City Rescue Mission in Oklahoma City.The project gives students who stay home during spring break an opportunity to serve the community, said Nathan Box, coordinator for UCO’s Commuter Student Services.Students sorted cloth […]
• UCO's volunteering efforts get recognized March 20, 2010
  EDMOND — The University of Central Oklahoma was named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.The Corporation for National and Community Service, which administers the award, recognized more than 700 col […]
• Norman School Board to discuss dropout rate March 20, 2010
  NORMAN — The school district’s student dropout rate will be discussed at the Norman School Board meeting.It begins at 7 p.m.Read more on NewsOK.com […]