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TULSA, Okla. — Some Tulsa parents volition soon request to find their kids a caller school. Tulsa Public Schools committee votes 6 to 0 to destruct the 6th people from McClure Elementary.
The territory says it does not presently person capable teachers for its 52 students successful 6th grade.
Substitute teachers aren't an enactment either. That’s owed successful portion to the teacher shortage crossed the state.
The territory is recommending parents enroll their kids into 6th people astatine Memorial Middle School. Memorial already serves 6th graders and offers extra-curricular activities not disposable successful an simple school.
The committee says the alteration was expected to hap adjacent schoolhouse twelvemonth but the staffing shortage is forcing them to bash it sooner.
“Because of the statewide quality of the crisis, the territory does not expect being capable to enlistee and spot teachers successful the 6th-grade people successful the adjacent future,” president for Tulsa’s Public School Board, Stacey Wooley said.
Starting November 8, McClure Elementary volition lone location Pre-K done 5th grade.
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