The Foundation for OKCPS encourages the community to get involved in schools.
ReadOKC, an initiative of the Oklahoma City Schools Compact, is launching two new ways for the Oklahoma City community to encourage the love of reading in students.
In 2001, the MAPS for Kids program was established when Oklahoma City voters approved a new tax to fund public schools. The seven year temporary sales tax, combined with a bond issue, raised $700 million to fund transportation, technology and construction projects for the benefit of Oklahoma City’s public school students.
The honorees will join 81 other alumni and community leaders who have been inducted since the Wall of Fame was created in 1985.
The middle school is the only active, public school in a botanical garden in the country.
Rose State College and Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) are announcing a partnership to combine fiscal and educational resources.
The Fostering Student Success initiative facilitates a full‐time case manager position on campus to support Central students, formerly in foster care, in their efforts to attain a college degree.
Oklahoma City Councilwoman Meg Salyer and children’s author Brenda Maier are challenging OKCPS students through ReadOKC to read 1 million books this summer.
