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Cuts Proposed for TPS

Tulsa Public Schools' Education Service Center at 31st and New Haven
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Tulsa Public Schools' Education Service Center at 31st and New Haven

The Tulsa School Superintendent releases her proposal to trim $12 million from the school budget. The cuts are required because of the ongoing state revenue crisis.

Under the plan, three elementary schools in west Tulsa would be closed. Those schools are Park Elementary, Remington Elementary and the Porter Early Childhood Development Center.  Those students would be transferred to what is now the Clinton Middle School. Clinton students would then go to Webster High School which would be converted into a  combined Junior/Senior High School.

Other plans including trimming two days from the school calendar. That would save the district about  $2 million.

Athletic programs would also be trimmed in the district.

This is just a proposal at this time. More school board discussion will take place before a plan is finalized.