Teachers in Arizona have used the Oklahoma teacher walkout to plan their own strategy to advocate for higher education funding.
Teachers in Oklahoma have rallied at the state capitol since April 2 for...
The long-debated question of consolidating smaller school districts in Oklahoma to help the education budget has reappeared in the wake of the statewide teacher walkout.
A bill that would have consolidated...
Every year, “Oklahoma Arts Day” is held at the Oklahoma State Capitol on a day designated by Oklahomans for the Arts (OFTA). This year, it just so happened to be during the Oklahoma teacher walkout.
The...
Future teachers have been standing alongside those at the walkout to make a difference in the lives of their future students.
Anna Smith, a senior at the University of Oklahoma who is majoring in elementary...
To show support for the Oklahoma teacher walkout, Oklahoma City Public Schools invited educators from across the state to spend the night in the Capitol Hill High School Fieldhouse.
Volunteers from various...
The Oklahoma teacher walkout has come to a close, and now schools are feeling effects of missing class.
For some smaller school districts, like Geronimo Public Schools, the need to make up school hours...
As the teacher walkout intensified over the past week, the methods Oklahoma uses to obtain education funding came under extreme scrutiny.
Many took to social media to share their confusion, outrage...
Several students from Beggs Elementary in Beggs, Oklahoma, voiced their concerns about education funding though letters aimed at their legislators.
“We kids have voices, so here’s what I’m...
Some educators have been teaching in Oklahoma long enough to participate in two statewide teacher walkouts that demanded greater education funding from the state legislature.
Thousands of teachers...
Sarah Massey understands the importance of her role amongst her peers from Eugene Field Elementary in Oklahoma City, even though she has only been teaching for two months.
Massey said she decided to...
Public school teachers across Oklahoma made their way to the state Capitol by school bus to march for higher education funding early Monday morning.
Teachers at Longfellow Middle School in Norman,...
In the early-morning darkness surrounding the Oklahoma State Capitol, the only lights visible are streetlights, blinking lights on circling helicopters, and a shack covered in painted-on icicles...
