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Alpha Plus CEO meets Mayor Rudy Giuliani at UCO event

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Alpha Plus CEO Jan Barrick and Principal Max Miller met former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani after his keynote address at the UCO Distinguished Speaker Series event April 30, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond. Barrick said Mayor Giuliani's remarks were insightful and inspiring.

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Executive Q&A: Education consultant helps Oklahoma schools make the grade

Executive Q&A: Education consultant helps Oklahoma schools make the grade

By Paula Burkes Modified: March 16, 2014 at 10:00 am •  Published: March 16, 2014
 

In the early years after Jan Barrick started her education consulting business, her father and her Certified Public Accountant used to badger her annually around this time — tax time.

Photo - Jan Barrick, chief executive of Alpha Plus Educational Systems, Inc., displays some of the course curriculum she's written. Photo by Paul B. Southerland, The Oklahoman

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Alpha Plus congratulates "Reward" and other partner schools improving in 2013!

More than one third of schools (20 of 61 or 33%) served by Alpha Plus Educational Systems, Inc., in 2012-13 were identified as "2013 Reward Schools" by the Oklahoma State Department of Education.  Part of Oklahoma’s federal waiver of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the designations issued by the Oklahoma State Department of Education are dated Feb. 13, 2014. A "Reward" designation means these schools showed significant improvement or sufficiently high student achievement to warrant it under federal law.  The school designations are available on the OSDE website at http://www.ok.gov/sde/school-improvement.

In addition, four schools contracting with Alpha Plus in 2012-13 improved math and reading test scores enough to be removed from the ESEA list of low-performing schools.  Two of these improved from "Focus" level to "Reward" status! The “All Designations” PDF from the State Department of Education dated is available here:

http://www.ok.gov/sde/sites/ok.gov.sde/files/documents/files/All_Designation%20List%20From%20Accountability%2002%2006%202014.pdf.

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K-12 enrollment up more than 8,000 across the state

K-12 enrollment up more than 8,000 across the state

Posted: Friday, February 14, 2014 2:00 pm | Updated: 4:38 pm, Fri Feb 14, 2014.

By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer | 5 comments

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State budget going to common education continues to fall - Edmond Sun

February 5, 2014
State budget going to common education continues to fall
Patty Miller, The Edmond Sun

“This will be the second consecutive year the Edmond district has had to utilize the fund balance in order to appropriately staff schools and maintain programs currently in place,” said Lori Smith, Edmond Public School District’s Chief Financial Officer. - See more at: http://www.edmondsun.com/local/x1782775852/State-budget-going-to-common-education-continues-to-fall#sthash.wbEgq7Qs.dpuf

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We Use Data to Help Schools on the Way to an A!

Teachers and administrators can quickly and easily identify students who need more help learning the Oklahoma Academic Standards.

Alpha Plus pinpoints the SPECIFIC OAS objectives or "gaps" students have from previous years, then helps school teams address each objective throughout the year.

That is why Alpha Plus schools have OUTPERFORMED the state average every year of the A-F Report Cards.