Updated: Dec 17, 2020 1:27 PM
Teachers Become Priority to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine
Garrett Giles Bartlesville Superintendent Chuck McCauley took to Twitter to thank Governor Kevin Stitt after he announced an increased prioritization for Oklahoma teachers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday. In a press conference held at the State Capitol, Gov. Stitt said he has directed the Oklahoma State Department of Health to move K-12 teachers and support staff who interact with students up to phase two of the State s vaccine distribution plan. House Education Chairman Rhonda Baker, a former teacher, said they ve heard stories about students who aren t just falling behind academically. Representative Baker (
Updated: Dec 16, 2020 9:34 AM
BPS Chuck McCauley on COMMUNITY CONNECTION
Tom Davis Bartlesville Public Schools Superintendent Chuck McCauley appeared Wednesday on COMMUNITY CONNECTION and addressed why the schools are in remote learning mode despite not hitting the set metrics and announced that it his hope that classes will resume on January 4 with in-person learning. For several months the district has tracked its staffing, the number and frequency of site-level positive cases and close contact quarantines, and overall site absenteeism. Those metrics are used to determine if a site would need to transition to Distance Learning. McCauley backed up what Granger Meador, who heads up the Bartlesville Public Schools Pandemic Response Committee, said at Monday s school board meeting that they had been watching a surge of cases just before Thanksgiving which was followed by a downturn and then an uptick in case that he says was straining our hospitals.