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14 schools may close Ballard offers final plan for school board approval BY ANDREA EGER
Students leave Roosevelt Elementary School on Thursday. Roosevelt had not been targeted for closure in three previous proposals, but it ended up in the final closing recommendations. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World
World Staff Writer
Final recommendations
Superintendent Keith Ballard will ask the Tulsa school board to close 14 school buildings, retain sixth-graders in all but a handful of the city’s elementary schools and make three high schools accommodate grades 7-12. The final recommendation to emerge from the five-month Project Schoolhouse initiative also calls for the repurposing of the former Monroe Middle School facility in north Tulsa to For more replicate the educational models The recommenused at four highdations, schoolly sought-after by-school. A8 magnet schools. More than 150 The Fulton attend final facility, which forum. A8 has served as a See a map of professional dethe TPS school velopment cenbuildings. A9 ter since being shuttered as a school, would become an elementary school once again to help accommodate east Tulsa’s population growth. “I think this recommendation is much more comprehensive than the other three proposals. It adheres to a fairly consistent configuration of
Buildings closed (14) Central feeder pattern: Chouteau,
SEE TPS A9
Roosevelt
East Central feeder pattern: Sandburg
Edison feeder pattern: Barnard, Phillips
McLain feeder pattern: Alcott,
Cherokee
Memorial feeder pattern: Grimes Rogers feeder pattern: Cleveland,
Wilson
Webster feeder pattern: Addams Other: ECDC Bunche, Franklin,
Lombard
Buildings converted, all current students reassigned to other schools (8)
Bryant, Hamilton, Houston, Jones, Lewis and Clark, Madison, Nimitz, Rogers
Reopened as schools
Fulton, Monroe
Source: Tulsa Public Schools
Watch live streaming video of Superintendent Keith Ballard’s 9:30 a.m. Friday press conference about the final recommendations for Project Schoolhouse. tulsaworld.com/projectschoolhouse
Tax-program dropouts may get second chance
Woman serving life requests new hearing in wake of police probe BY OMER GILLHAM
BY RANDY KREHBIEL
World Staff Writer
A Tulsa woman who is serving a life sentence for a drug conviction has asked for a new hearing because a third officer associated with her case has been named in a police corruption probe, court records show. Sheila Devereux, 47, filed an application for post-conviction relief earlier this week in Tulsa County District Court. Devereux, who is now represented by Tulsa attorney Stanley Monroe, was convicted on Oct. 24, 2005, of one count of drug trafficking.
Read related stories and view police investigation documents. tulsaworld.com/grandjury
As first reported by the Tulsa World in October, Devereux asked the district attorney to review her life sentence because two Tulsa police officers involved in her arrest are charged with planting drugs in other cases, U.S. District Court records show. SEE INMATE A4
World Staff Writer
REVIEW Sheila Devereux: A third officer involved in her case has been named in a police corruption probe, prompting Devereux to ask for a new hearing.
Save Our Tulsa seeks earlier election date BY P.J. LASSEK
World Staff Writer
A nonprofit group, Save Our Tulsa, wants the City Council to set either a July 12 or Aug. 9 election date for voters to decide its proposed changes to the city’s form of government. The group’s effort, led by Tulsa businessman John Brock, would strengthen the mayor’s role and
weaken the council’s along with making changes to council terms and the voting cycle. The July and August dates, however, could cost the city as much as $160,000 if it is the only entity holding an election. The group originally sought to have changes placed on the ballot for the city’s already scheduled Nov. 8 general election. “We just want to move forward
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on this,” Brock said Thursday about changing the dates. “We don’t want them (council) to slow roll us.” Brock said that if the council decides against the earlier dates, the group then wants Nov. 8. Tulsa County Election Board Secretary Patty Bryant said there are designated dates in which elec-
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Policymakers are trying to decide what to do about a popular tax incentive program with a sharp increase in the number of participants who have failed to meet the terms of their agreements with the state. Oklahoma Tax Commission officials say 57 employers in 2009 did
Quality Jobs Program trends Quality Jobs payouts 2008-2010, in millions of dollars $57.6
$64.8 $49.9
not fulfill the requirements of a program that provides up to five years of property tax exemptions for businesses meeting employment, investment and other requirements. The state makes up the lost revenue to local governments, including schools, through the Ad Valorem Reimbursement Fund. SEE TAXES A3
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