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Contractors, associations support both sides of SQ 744 debate

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Education funding state question spurs debate among Oklahoma chambers, businesses and school patrons.

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Flexibility with resources would benefit Oklahoma schools

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State Senator John Ford -- The concept is simple, but the goal is dramatic — to allow our local schools to determine how best to use the resources they are allocated and develop innovative approaches to education that will ultimately help them achieve even greater results in the classroom.

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Approval of SQ 744 would more than change the game in Oklahoma

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Oklahoma Editorial -- Game-changing state questions were put on the Nov. 2 ballot, measures that supporters touted as way to dramatically increase spending for schools and health care.

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Scholastic Books Revamps Its Marketing

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The company said it wanted to keep better track of teachers who were new or who had departed and use more methods of communication.

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Teachers blast L.A. Times for releasing teacher effectiveness rankings

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National and local teachers unions sharply criticized The Times on Sunday when the newspaper published a database of about 6,000 third- through fifth-grade city school teachers ranked by their effectiveness in raising student test scores.

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Keeping parents' 'helicopters' grounded during college

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Many schools are holding orientations for anxious mothers and fathers of freshmen, attempting to teach them a lesson not contained in any traditional curriculum: Let go.

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Kansas school spending should get Oklahoma voters' attention

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Brian Downs -- Before voters make up their minds about State Question 744, which would force lawmakers to spend an additional billion dollars-plus on K-12 education, they should look to their neighbors to the north. In Kansas, the goal of improving education simply by spending more money had devastating results.

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