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Kyla Molina briefs the State Board of Education on Sovereign Community School during a special meeting on Friday.
In a five-hour special meeting on Friday, the Oklahoma State Board of Education voted to keep an indigenous-led charter school on probation and to place an Oklahoma City district on probation.
The board could have terminated Sovereign Community School’s contract, but they praised operations director Stacie Thrasher and founding board member Kyla Molina for working to improve its governance and solve financial problems.
Enrollment has consistently fallen short of projections, leaving the school short on funds, and Sovereign Community School pursued a merger with fellow charter Santa Fe South Schools, accepting a $300,000 loan. Molina told the state board they want to get the question of financial solvency off of the state’s plate.
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The Western Heights Public School district is at risk of losing its accreditation, a process that could begin during Friday s state board of education meeting.
The school district is facing the following complaints:
No in-person classes offered for the past year.
A board member caught drinking during a board meeting.
Misuse of district funds.
Friday s board of education will discuss the possibility of putting the Western Heights district on probation. That is the first step on a path of losing accreditation.
State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister said the leadership and operations need to be examined., but acknowledged that once a school is on a path to losing accreditation, there is no turning back.
OSDH: 416 New COVID-19 Cases Reported, 10 More Virus-Related Deaths Added To State s Provisional Death Count
Ten more virus-related deaths and 416 new coronavirus cases were reported in the state since Thursday, according to daily numbers released by the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
A total of 442,805 Oklahomans have tested positive for COVID-19 and the provisional death count of virus-related deaths is at 8,033, the state health department said on Friday.
The state health department said they added approximately 1,300 previously unreported cases which happened in the last four months, resulting in the artificially high new case number for Wednesday.
The seven-day rolling average for new cases reported was 522 with the cases reported and 323 without the previously unreported cases
Oklahoma Board of Education puts Western Heights School District on probation over complaints Share Updated: 12:25 PM CDT Apr 9, 2021 KOCO Staff Share Updated: 12:25 PM CDT Apr 9, 2021
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