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Oklahoma Teacher's Retirement System (OTRS) is the pension program for public education employees in the State of Oklahoma. As of June 30, 2014, the program had nearly 168,000 members. [ 1 ] Public education teachers and administrators are required to be OTRS members; support staff can join voluntarily. [ 1 ]
The Office of Accountability was created in 1990 to oversee school performance and the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation was created in 1995 to establish standards for teacher candidates. In 2012, Governor of Oklahoma Mary Fallin signed SB 1797 into law, consolidating the two agencies into the single Office of Educational Quality and ...
At the ratification of the Oklahoma Constitution in 1907, the State Superintendent, the Governor of Oklahoma, the Secretary of State of Oklahoma, and the Attorney General of Oklahoma served as the State Board of Education. With the passage of the Oklahoma School Code of 1971, the Board consisted of seven members: the State Superintendent (who ...
A program that pays for paraprofessionals to earn college degrees is helping Oklahoma City Public Schools address its ongoing teacher shortage. Oklahoma schools need more teachers. OKC has a ...
Roughly 22% of Oklahoma teachers have three years or less of experience, and over 52% percent of teachers have 10 or more years of experience. In light of these challenges, the extension of the ...
House Bill 3454, authored by Rep. Anthony Moore, R-Clinton, would expand Oklahoma's Promise eligibility to children of certified, full-time teachers who have been employed by a public-school ...
J.B Perky was the first director. In 1966, Oklahoma technology center school districts were formed, and in 1967, Tri County Tech became the state's first area vocational-technical school. On July 1, 1968, the Oklahoma State Board of Vocational and Technical Education was established as a separate entity from the State Department of Education.
About 30,000 teachers left Oklahoma’s public school system between 2012 and 2018. Meanwhile, the number of people studying to become teachers fell nationwide since 2010, most steeply in Oklahoma .