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Oklahoma Secretary of Education Ryan Walters has asked the state Board of Education to revoke the teaching certificate of a former Norman Public Schools teacher who quit after a complaint
Oklahoma Secretary of Education Ryan Walters asked the state Board of Education to revoke the teaching certificate of a former Norman Public Schools teacher who quit her job after a
Following a 7-2 vote to decline a home builder’s request to construct 147 homes between Bishop Creek and 12th Avenue S.E., city councilors are mostly silent on the reasons for
10 hrs ago The Norman City Councilâs new city-issued cell phones came thanks to a recommendation of the Charter Review Commission. According to the minutes of an August 2019 meeting, then-Ward 3 Robert Castleberry said councilors should have city-issued cell phones, just as city employees do. Castleberry told The Transcript Thursday he believes the initiative âincreases transparency and should facilitate open records requests.â âThere needs to be policies in place regarding deleting text and emails that ensures transparency, and that the phone is only used for official cit...
Dec 11, 2020 A letter from an attorney representing Sassan Moghadam urges the city to schedule a recall election for Ward 3 Alison Petrone and questions the validity of an ongoing lawsuit. Moghadam hired retired district judge Steven Stice, an attorney now practicing for the Talley, Turner, Stice & Bertram law firm. Co-founders of Unite Norman Moghadam and Russell Smith filed for and circulated the petitions in July to recall odd-numbered ward councilors and the mayor. After the city clerk certified enough signatures to recall Petrone, the councilor challenged the sufficiency of signatures in...