SOSU offers schools help during the testing window
The Southeastern Center, located adjacent to the before entering the work force in demand. is a place where they have years without raising salaries Oklahoma State University SOSU branch, about a possi- – typically four years, some- Common education, higher worked cooperatively. addressed the teacher pay branch campus provided com- ble articulation agreement times five or six years if work- education and vocational edu- But the revenues for fund- raise issue last year and has a puters and space for more than between the criminal justice ing part-time or getting a grad- cation are separately funded, ing education are crucial. Ad pending bill for an additional 100 high school students to programs at KTC and the col- uate degree – can be a turn-off each with their own advocates valorem taxes are a key source salary increase. But opera- take ACT tests recently. lege. for high school graduates who and supporters, but one thing for both public schools and tional funding for colleges and The ACT test is a require- High school students in find it hard to get the money they have in common is open- technology center funding, but public schools has been at ment for high school juniors criminal justice – a new pro- without a loan and who want ing up career opportunities. constitutional limits on prop- standstill or reduced levels under the state system of man- gram at KTC-Idabel, started to get into the world of work The three (most often state- erty taxes puts extra pressure since 2008. There have been dated testing. this year with Gabe Morris as quicker. funded) programs have on raising the money through no indications from the con- Some 77 Idabel students instructor – could get some The increased demand for worked cooperatively in some unpopular fees and taxes. servative legislature that this and around 30 Wright City credits toward the associate’s skilled labor has also been states, and McCurtain County The State Legislature after will change anytime soon. students took the ACT tests in degree in criminal justice, noted by researchers into the computer lab and library at offered at the SOSU Idabel vocational education and SOSU’s McCurtain County branch. apprenticeship programs. branch campus, said Kendra Nursing programs at the Gross, director at the SOSU- two adjoining campuses have The fields of technology, MCC campus in Idabel. an agreement that allows nurs- health and education offer job Richard Crow, the campus es who take complete the opportunities for applicants technology director, worked licensed practical nursing who have the skills and train- with the schools and their class at KTC to enter the reg- ing they need. counselors to set up the com- istered nursing associate’s High school juniors and puters and an appropriate degree program at EOSC with seniors who complete the pre- environment (the spaces were credits they earned at KTC. engineering program (started closed off during the testing). This reduces the time it takes as a pilot program at Idabel The two high schools pro- to become an RN. several years ago) report they vided their own monitors and There is a strong demand have upped their ACT scores proctors. Gross noted it was for RNs and LPNs in and many have entered engi- the first year for Wright City McCurtain County and any- neering or technical programs to make use of the campus where else. after high school. facilities for testing, but Idabel Some nursing graduates go Bachelor’s degrees in edu- had utilized the SOSU-MCC on and obtain a bachelor’s cation, business and psycholo- facilities before. degrees in nursing, become gy have been among the fre- The college is also provid- nurse practitioners, physical quent major programs at ing the space (but not the com- therapists, physicians’ assis- SOSU-MCC. puters) during April for Epic tant or other health-related One program that offers Charter School to test its stu- positions. incentives for Native dents at a former nursing Programs that help students Americans to become teachers Darren Rios is honored as one of two students of the month from Idabel classroom in a currently unoc- develop skills that enable is available at the Durant main High School for April by the Idabel Kiwanis Club. Dios is an excellent cupied building that adjoins them to enter the work force campus of SOSU. scholar and athlete and is the 2019 State Power Lifting Champion for the main building. with good pay have gained in Nationwide, programs have Division Three. His parents Andrew and Melissa Rios were on hand as SOSU-MCC is currently popularity as college tuition been proposed for decades to Kiwanian past president Chuck Miller presented Dios with a certificate taking enrollments for the costs have increased. have a better match between and check. summer and fall, Gross noted, Also, the time required job training and the jobs most and has set plans for a recep- tion for its graduates in early May. The campus also played Society to discuss Snowdon’s visit with Stevenson host to a resource fair (Cont. from page one) An article that appeared in horses in the pasture, there in 1959. When the Stevenson home, Jordan will Wednesday. The premise for the visit the McCurtain Gazette after- Stevenson was painting the opportunity to purchase the illuminate the Stevenson con- Gross hopes to work with was that Snowdon was to pho- wards and was picked up by cowboys and cowgirls. Barnes home was presented to nection to noted architects the Kiamichi Technology tograph the Wright City rodeo UPI said the paper “was given The Museum of the Red Stevenson, he eagerly pur- Bruce Goff, Frank Lloyd – and capture the myth of true the royal slip last week when River has announced a 2020 chased it, recalling his fond Wright, and Philip Johnson. Americana on the Fourth of Anthony Armstrong Jones exhibition featuring memories of the architect’s Jordan has previously pre-
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