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Epic Charter Schools announced in a letter to parents, faculty and students on Tuesday that it would lay off staff due to a massive drop in enrollment.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses an announcement that 6,200 people needlessly died this year because they chose not to get vaccinated, the Pardon and Parole Board setting the state up for its first execution since 2015 and Gov. Kevin Stitt trip to the U.S. border along with eleven other Republican governors.
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As traditional public school enrollment plummeted last year, charter school enrollment actually went up across the country. More than 10 percent of that total growth happened at one virtual charter school in Oklahoma.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses the Pardon and Parole Board sending a recommendation to Governor Stitt for the commutation of inmate Julius Jones and Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett surviving a supreme court challenge trying to remove him from his position.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics we discuss a new report from the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency against the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust's spending on cessation programs, Epic Virtual Charter School's new board giving $2.5M to a company owned by the brother of its former chairman and a study looking at 18 fatalities from police pursuits over a five-year period.
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Epic Charter Schools’ reconstituted governing board met Tuesday night to approve a more than $335 million budget. Much of the money will come from an increase in funding from the state legislature.
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Epic Charter Schools announced a complete governance overhaul late Wednesday.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics, KOSU's Michael Cross talks with Republican Political Consultant Neva Hill and Civil Rights Attorney about the growing controversy over Governor Stitt signing a bill to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory in Oklahoma schools, lawmakers considering recommendation of a grand jury investigation for Epic Virtual Charter School and Congressman Cole working on legislation allowing the Chickasaw and Cherokee Nations to compact with the state over criminal jurisdiction.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics, KOSU's Michael Cross talks with Republican Political Consultant Neva Hill and sitting in for Ryan Kiesel in ACLU Oklahoma Executive Director Tamya Cox-Touré about the settlement between the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board and Epic Schools to avoid termination hearings along with new bills signed by the governor including one requiring a fiscal impact statement on initiative petitions and several more making it harder to get abortions.
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Some major reforms are coming to Epic Charter Schools that will keep the virtual behemoth open, following a settlement agreement between Epic and the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter Board on Monday.