Press Advisory
What: News Conference called by Public School Superintendents of Broken Arrow, Jenks, Liberty, and Union
When: Today, February 24, 2011, at 3:00 p.m.
Where: Union Public Schools Education Service Center, 8506 E. 61st Street. In the first floor Board of Education Room.
Why: To announce action to be recommended regarding compliance or non-compliance with House Bill 3393, a new state law requiring districts to pay tuition scholarships for special education students whose parents choose to send them to private/religious schools.
Today is the deadline Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt gave the four districts to respond to his January 18 letter threatening action against the districts and individual Board members if they choose not to comply with the new law.
Gretchen
Gretchen Haas-Bethell
Executive Director of Communications
Union Public Schools
8506 E. 61st Street, Tulsa, OK 74133
(918) 357-6016 or (918) 357-6015
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