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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Susan Kleps is an art teacher at Tulsa's Webster High School whose first career was as a medic in the United States Army. Emilee Iverson teaches remedial geometry at Broken Arrow High School after recently graduating from college with a degree in psychology. Both took nontraditional paths to become classroom teachers, but a Tulsa World analysis of state teacher certification data found that nontraditional paths are becoming increasingly common amid Oklahoma's teacher shortage. "The alternative certification has kind of m...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Public Charter School Association's lawsuit against the state aims to accomplish what legislation recently did in Colorado and Florida — increase charter schools' access to public dollars. At issue in the lawsuit is a share of traditional public schools' revenues from Oklahoma's gross production, motor vehicle and rural electrification association tax collections; state school land earnings; and county tax collections. The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools says its nonprofit advocacy organization has...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The University of Tulsa's campus security department has a standing order: Dr. Gerard Clancy wants to be telephoned immediately — even in the middle of the night — if one of his students is sexually assaulted. "It's very upsetting; you don't sleep the rest of the night. But I want the student — the victim — and their parents to know I'm involved and I care enough about it to want to know right away," Clancy said. "I need to be disturbed about it." The Tulsa World reports that amid a shocking string of assaults on and aroun...
