Changes in school enrollment affect funding amid pandemic
Pandemic impact on school funding
and last updated 2021-02-25 08:39:09-05
TULSA, Okla. â Parents and educators are still settling into the new normal for their students. The pandemic is not only dictating how students are in school, but also bringing significant changes to districts enrollment and funding.
Brooke Rogers sits at the kitchen table with her daughter Nora. This isn t the second-grade experience she expected. Instead of being in a classroom with her friends, she s learning from home online with Epic Charter Schools.
âShe loves it, Rogers said. Sheâs learning so much.â
By: Tess Maune
MCALESTER, Okla. -
At 35 years old, Oklahoma’s newly appointed Secretary of Education is not only the youngest ever to hold that position in Oklahoma, but Ryan Walters is also the only Secretary of Education in Oklahoma to continue to teach.
“I absolutely love teaching, being around young people: the hope, the excitement, the energy that comes from it, Walters said.
Walters told News On 6 s Tess Maune his goal as a top advisor to the governor is to make a difference for students across the state, the same ambition he’s had for years as a high school teacher.
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By: Jonathan Cooper
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -
Governor Kevin Stitt made big changes to Oklahoma’s quarantine guidelines for students, with the goal of keeping more kids in the classroom, but other state leaders have voiced their concerns.
The changes come as the state surpasses 2,800 total deaths with the state reporting 29 new virus-related deaths Tuesday.
State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister is critical of the governor s new guidelines, saying that while she agrees in-person school is critical, COVID-19 is still rampant in the state. The ramifications of the pandemic on education have been challenging and severe. While this option underscores the need for mask requirements in school, I cannot in good conscience support ignoring quarantine guidelines from the CDC and other infectious disease experts. There is no doubt we all want our students and teachers to be safely in the classroom, but COVID is raging in Oklahoma. In-person instruction is critical, and so is mitigating the
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Dick Pryor: This is Capitol Insider, your weekly look inside Oklahoma politics, policy and government. I m Dick Pryor with eCapitol news director Shawn Ashley. Shawn, Governor Kevin Stitt has extended his COVID-19 emergency executive order for another thirty days. That goes through February 12th. There is one change from the current order regarding bars and restaurants. What does the new order do?
Shawn Ashley: Well, the new order does not include the 11 p.m. curfew for in-person service at bars and restaurants, although it does keep in place the social distancing requirements and the barrier requirements that were in the executive order. For the most part, the order is very much like what we ve seen for several months now, and much of it relates to government operations, expedited licensing for medical professionals and an easing of purchasing requirements, particularly for PPE and things like that.