Schools become a new COVID-19 ‘super spreader’ as classes resume
The rise in COVID-19 cases among students and staff has schools working to mitigate further spread, while others abandon their plans for in-person learning.
‘Epic is prepared for this, our district is not’: As districts work to reopen, parents flee to virtual schools
Epic Charter school has its critics, but amid the coronavirus pandemic, as teachers, students and parents worry about their districts’ ability to go virtual if the classroom environment isn’t safe, Epic is looking more and more like a palatable option to some.
Following statewide closure earlier this year, schools now adopting their own plans for navigating COVID-19
Though coronavirus cases in Oklahoma continue to rise, the state’s Board of Education is not expected to issue a statewide closure of school buildings like it did four months ago.
Trial date set in state’s attempt to access virtual school records
The chamber claimed that if Epic’s management company were forced to give up financial records it would set a precedent for any other private companies that do business with the government.
Senator says he was asked to delete Epic emails
The information provided by Wilkinson and the virtual charter school board to Sharp is a central part of a libel lawsuit Epic filed against Sharp last year.
An already hungry state sees its food crisis deepen
This is what it looks like when one of the hungriest states in the nation experiences an economic crisis of historic proportions, when more than 154,000 Oklahomans have filed unemployment claims and thousands of jobs seemed to vanish overnight at hotels, restaurants and in the oil fields.
At least one in four Epic students transfer out
Epic virtual charter school has grown into one of the largest school systems in the state but it has also become one of the largest producers of transfers, sending thousands of students in and out of schools across Oklahoma throughout the academic year.
Lockdown in DOC suspends prison education programs
The confinement of inmates to their cells in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 has also meant the pause of classes for thousands of students in Oklahoma prisons who were working on degrees and vocational certificates.