Positive Changes at TPS Board Meeting

By Susan Phillips, Education Reporter

Editor’s Note: This group of stories on public education in Tulsa feature curated material from CityNewsTulsa.com and City Sentinel Tulsa, the conservative print publication of the city.

Analysis: In this meeting, Interim Superintendent Dr. Ebony Johnson assumed her new role. She got off to a great start. I observed seven positive changes at the Tulsa Public School Board meeting on Monday, September 18, 2023. 

The first change appeared on the consent agenda. Perusing the online agenda before the meeting I discovered a link to the full encumbrance report and read a clear explanation of “encumbrances”. I clicked on it and to my surprise and delight, up popped the encumbrance report. Someone made a decision FOR transparency, good choice!

Later, during a staff report given by Chief Financial and Operations Officer Robles, the public learned that he will be adding information to the encumbrance report. A huge win better governance and further transparency with clarity.

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TPS Accredited with Deficiencies

By Susan Phillips, Education Reporter

Editor’s Note: This and several stories on public education in Tulsa curate material from CityNewsTulsa.com and City Sentinel Tulsa, the conservative print publication of the city.

News/Analysis: As I write, the monthly meeting of the State Board of Education remains in session. They are in the Public Comment portion of the agenda. The decision all TPS was waiting for has been made.

The board unanimously honored the accreditation status that was recommended by the accreditation committee with a few key additions (I paraphrase from my notes since this is not yet published by the state board).

  • First, provide professional development in the science of reading.
  • Second, report monthly progress in person to the State Board.
  • Third, present a corrective action plan to get schools off F status.
  • Fourth, develop, publish, and execute financial internal controls.
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Gist’s Pattern of TPS’s Failure

M. C. Gallagher, Tulsa Investigative Reporter

Editor’s Note: This and several following stories on public education in Tulsa curate material from CityNewsTulsa.com and City Sentinel Tulsa, the conservative print publication of the city.

State Board of Ed to Vote on TPS Accreditation: Numbers Don’t Lie and They Don’t Look Good For Gist

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters and the State Board of Education are no longer ignoring the underperformance and mismanagement of Tulsa Public Schools (TPS). Unlike the previous administrations, it appears that standards under the law will be more equitably enforced over all school districts. Emotional arguments and political affiliations are out, data is in, and children appear to be this administration’s first priority.

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Oklahoma Remembers 9/11

By David Arnett

Editorial: Oklahoma Elected Officials are attending memorials and issuing statements on the attack 22 years ago that changed the world as we had known it. When the first plane hit, I called a friend, and we went to Brookside by Day and watched there as the second plane hit. It was a hard day.

But, as traumatic as it was, do Americans truly understand that we are still under attack? America has always been a target of Communists, Fascists, and Democrats who often damn us in despicable rhetoric for what they themselves do. It is a common criminal tactic used frequently by authoritarians.

Saturday September 9 a group of communist revolutionaries burned multiple American flags outside a Jason Aldean concert in Chicago and this follows a September 7 California School Board Meeting appearance by the same Revolutionary Communist Party. One of their members shouted, for anyone “with humanity for LGBTQ people” to “get ready for a revolution to overthrow this whole system that gave birth to this White supremacy and this male supremacy.”

In short, the war is here, but legacy media still doesn’t have a clue even as they report the incidents.

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OSBI Confirms Court & DA Concealed Records

By David Arnett

The article published today by V1SUT Vantage is shocking. In 2023 Americans daily see a two-tier justice system in many Democrat Party controlled cities, but this story proves a multi-tier justice system in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Apparently, courthouse officials hide “Alphabet Mafia Crime.”

Bartlesville, in Washington County, is a beautiful small city nestled in the rolling hills of Northeast Oklahoma. It enjoys an upper middle-class lifestyle made possible for decades by corporate giant ConocoPhillips. This unique progressive community heralds the Price Tower (a Frank Lloyd Wright 19-story landmark), OK Mozart, thriving artistic outlets and many Christian Congregations.

They also have an active, if not militant, LGBT community that has embedded key players into the power structure of the court system and elected public office. They have generated national publicity for using courts to silence opposition to public drag shows that allow attendance by minor children.

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