After a 5-year-old in Texas got her hair cut, her friends started calling her a boy, and she began wearing a hat to school. But her teacher’s kind gesture changed everything.
Because of the rumor, allegedly spread by bullies, the boy was ostracized and ridiculed by his classmates and searched and interrogated by staff, according to the father’s attorney.
40-year-old Warren Hitchcock was arrested at his home after investigators from multiple agencies, including the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations, searched his home
At the second annual mandated event in the Douglass Learning Center Cafeteria, district representatives talked about federal Title 6 dollars for Native American education programs and how the money is spent at LPS.
Lawton, Cache and Geronimo will receive $250,000 over a three-year period to help develop an Oklahoma threat violence assessment curriculum and provide training to the three districts.
Oklahoma had 525 school districts that served about 700,000 students last year, which is about three times the number of districts in other states with a similar enrollment size, the report found.
Officials with the foundation say the money raised at the event will be used for teacher grants and to help give additional resources to the district for things that funding doesn't cover.
The superintendent stopped the practice, saying staff didn’t get it approved by the district, and students will return to serving detention in a classroom setting.
State Question 801 would allow local school boards the ability to use existing property tax funds for things like teacher pay and textbooks without raising taxes.
