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Candidates for TPS District 2

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The Tulsa Board of Education has five candidates for the vacant spot to represent District 2. The candidates are Robert Howard, Alvin Okonkwo, Jania Wester, Gary Copper and Jenni Plaster. Nine people had applied for the spot, which was open following the resignation of Amy Shelton, who quit in August for family reasons. Those five…

Community College?

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Tulsa Community College is in the middle of the pack in national study In a national survey of 715 community colleges, Tulsa Community College ranked as No. 388 in WalletHub’s “Best & Worst Community College Systems.” TCC is No. 388 overall and No. 375 in cost. Northern Oklahoma College has the No. 1 ranking in…

TCC enrolls 16,000-plus students

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An estimated 16,000 students are enrolled in courses from Accounting to Veterinary Technology for this semester at Tulsa Community College. TCC has four main campuses – Metro, Northeast, Southeast, and West as well as the Riverside Community Campus and Aviation Center at the Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Airport and the Owasso Community Campus. New this…

Try Anything and Fire Most Administrators

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You may have seen that on last Thursday the State School Board approved the application of the Sovereign Community Charter School.  This school will be in Oklahoma City and is the first of its kind in the United States.  Why? Because it may well really help Native American children in advancing their education.  The school…