Governor Kevin Stitt’s CARES FORWARD team announced that reimbursement requests for CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Funds (CRF) from cities and counties have quadrupled in the past month and the number of local governments that have begun the process to file for reimbursements has doubled. This new peak comes a month after Stitt announced the state’s…
POINT LOOKOUT, Missouri — College of the Ozarks was recently ranked by Washington Monthly, earning No.1 Best Bang for the Buck in the Midwest and No. 1 Bachelor’s College. Washington Monthly compared a sampling of 1,469 colleges, including public, private nonprofit, and for-profit institutions. Washington Monthly released its 2020 college guide and rankings in the…
The Tulsa City-County Library is partnering with OverDrive and Tulsa County schools who subscribe to OverDrive’s educational product Sora to encourage student use of OverDrive’s extensive digital catalog. Owasso High School is the first school in the Tulsa County area to sign up for Sora. Through their school’s Sora app, Owasso students can browse and…
The Haskell News weekly newspaper ended publication on August 27 after more than a century of publishing. Bill and Purna Guy bought the paper in 1962. When Purna died in 2001, her husband and daughter, Julie, continued publishing the paper. When Bill died just short of the newspaper’s 100th anniversary, Julie continued running the paper…
Class-size limits imposed by passage of House Bill 1017 in 1990 are often cited as a major reform, but those limits have effectively been repealed for almost a decade now. While some school lobbying groups continue to call for reducing class sizes, experts told members of the Senate Education Committee that class-size reduction is very…
OKLAHOMA CITY – Governor Kevin Stitt congratulates 2018 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year and 2019 National Teacher of the Year Finalist Donna Gradel for her selection to The National Teachers Hall of Fame. Gradel taught environmental science at Broken Arrow High School from 1996 to 2020 before joining Summit Christian Academy as dean of academic…
In the grip of a pandemic, state revenues fell by almost 5% in Oklahoma in August, State Treasurer Randy McDaniel said. Oil and gas production made the biggest drop. August receipts from all sources were $979.5 million and are below collections from August 2019 by $47.3 million, or 4.6 percent. It marks the fifth time…
The problem with the Chinese coronavirus within Oklahoma’s prison system may not be as bad as it is being presented, said State Rep. Sean Roberts, R-Hominy, chairman of the House Public Health Committee. “Our state has seen a surge in COVID-19 cases, which is fueled by a high number of positive tests in our prison…
OKLAHOMA CITY – As the Oklahoma Health Care Authority prepares for the expanded adult Medicaid population, the current Insure Oklahoma premium assistance program will be modified due to population growth. Insure Oklahoma helps small businesses and their employees access health care coverage. As of July, there were approximately 29,000 Employee Sponsored Insurance (ESI) and Individual…
CONWAY, Arkansas — Tacos 4 Life, an Arkansas-grown taco restaurant with a mission to help end world hunger, has raised 15 million meals for hungry children in Third World countries since the restaurant chain’s founding in 2014. The brand began as an idea between newlyweds Austin and Ashton Samuelson while they were living in California…