Oklahoma's top public education official has a new target in his right-wing culture war fight: the Tulsa school district.
An English teacher intended to spark a discussion when she covered her bookshelves with a sign that read: ‘Books the state doesn’t want you to read.
“I don’t know his heart or the hearts of the board members, but I know they have over and over focused on the issue of race, and they just now happen to be threatening to ‘unaccredit’ the school district that educates the most Black kids in the state,” Nichols said. “There are several other districts whose outcomes are worse than TPS’, and none of them are facing the same consequences.”
For his part, Walters said he wants to see Tulsa dramatically improve its test scores, particularly in reading, and get more schools off the state’s “F” list of report cards that aim to measure a school’s performance and improvement. “From 2018, TPS had 21% of their students reading proficient,” Walters said. “Now they have 12%. This is tragic for Tulsa students. The state average of reading proficiency is 27.9%.”Students in Oklahoma have historically performed
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