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Governor:Mary Fallin
State Superintendent of Public Instruction:Janet Barresi
Quality Counts state grade:C+
Pre-K-12 enrollment:659,828
Number of school districts:532
Number of public schools:1,785
Number of public school teachers:41,278
Unadjusted education spending per student:$7,929
Percent minority students:45.4%
Percent of students eligible for free/reduced price lunch:60.5%
Percent of students with disabilities:14.7%
Percent of English-language learners:6.3%
NAEP Mathematics 2011 percent proficient
4th grade math:33.5%
8th grade math:27.3%
NAEP Reading 2011 percent proficient
4th grade reading:26.6%
8th grade reading:26.7%

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Oklahoma lawmakers have sent the governor a measure that would move the office that analyzes student test scores out of the state education department.
April 28, 2009 - Education Week
February 23, 2009 - Education Week
John Q. Porter is facing allegations that include improper billing of the district for some expenses.
January 18, 2008 - Education Week
An audit of three Oklahoma school districts has found that 98 percent of the children the districts counted as participants in the federal migrant education program during the 2003-04 school year didn’t meet eligibility requirements.
April 11, 2006 - Education Week
Experts warned Southern education leaders meeting here that falling graduation rates may threaten the region’s progress in improving students’ test scores, access to preschool, and other advances in recent years in the poorest region of the United States.
June 29, 2005 | Updated: December 14, 2011 - Education Week (Web)
It has been less than six months since the nation’s governors gathered for a summit on high schools, and already at least half a dozen states have enacted policies that require students to complete tougher academic programs to earn a diploma.
June 21, 2005 - Education Week
In a demographic shift that is ahead of the state as a whole, but representative of many small towns in the region, Hispanics make up nearly 27 percent of the enrollment in the 800-student Hennessey school district, up from 18.2 percent in the 2000-01 school year. The district is one of four in Oklahoma to launch a two-way language-immersion program.
May 3, 2005 - Education Week
Voters showed caution about sending more money to public schools or dramatically changing course on education policy, as they decided school-related questions on state ballots last week.
November 9, 2004 - Education Week
Oklahoma's five-year effort to make prekindergarten available to all 4-year-olds in the state is paying off, especially for Hispanic and African-American children, a new evaluation shows.
October 29, 2003 - Education Week
Nashala Hearn, a 6th grader who attends the 400-student Benjamin Franklin Science Academy in Muskogee, Okla., was suspended for a total of eight days this month for violating the district's dress code. The girl's parents said she wore the veil for religious reasons, and they have threatened to sue the district.
October 22, 2003 - Education Week

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