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Consultants to aid in a search for a new superintendent laid out for the Little Rock School Board on Thursday a process that calls for individual board member interviews next week, a March 5 applicant deadline and a selection of a school district chief before May 1.
Enid Public Schools on its way to becoming a 'model district,' officials say Read full article March 7, 2021, 9:17 AM·7 min read Mar. 7—ENID, Okla. — Coming out of a year of waiting to see what happens next, Enid Public Schools administrators have great expectations for their students and teachers. As the district is focused on moving beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, its students' academic excellence and character education remain among EPS' top priorities, EPS Superintendent Darrell Floyd said Friday. Floyd has set his sights on EPS becoming a "model district" — in which every school is ...
1 min to read A local employment agency will help Enid Public Schools hire more substitute teachers for the upcoming semester as hiring in-house has proven increasingly difficult. EPS is set to pay Enid-based TPI Staffing Service Inc. an additional 19% rate to seek and employ daily substitutes, Board of Education members unanimously approved Monday night. District officials said this surcharge will be added to substitutesâ current reported $80 daily pay if certified. EPS would then pay $95.20 total a day for a teacherâs filled absence. Through this agreement, district...
Enid Public Schools will return to in-person instruction after the Christmas break. (File Photo) Enid Public Schools students and staff will return to school next semester after nearly two months of distance learning brought about by the rise of COVID-19 cases in Garfield County. EPS Board of Education on Monday night passed a revision to the districtâs COVID-19 re-entry plan, changing how administrators determine whether to close schools once classes begin again on Jan. 5, 2021. Decisions will be made largely on a site-by-site basis, rather than following the state Department of Educati...
Enid Public Schools’ superintendent will recommend at Monday’s school board meeting that the district follow new guidelines to determine whether to move to distance learning beginning in the spring semester.