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Contact Mrs. Schneider at the High School to order your 2018 Homecoming T-Shirt.
Order and Payment are due by Noon, September 21,2018.
Verdigris Public Schools purchased several new buses this summer. Click here for the new bus numbers.
School Supply Lists are on each schools site - also below.
On Wednesday, August 1st, PSO will be performing electrical upgrades to the North Campus. This upgrade will have an impact on phone service for the entire District.
We apologize for the inconvenience while phones, fax, and internet is down.
Verdigris Technology Department
Mandatory drug testing for student athletes will be Thursday morning, August 2nd, 2018 for 11th & 12th grade at 10am and 9th & 10th grade at 11am in the HS Commons Area. The cost is $20. Students will need a parent signed drug testing form. Parents must complete a drug testing consent form on RANK One or students may bring a parent-signed drug testing consent form with them. Drug Testing Consent Form
Congratulations to the Verdigris Girls Soccer team!
Class 4A State Champions!
Congratulations to the Verdigris High School Jazz Band.
2018 - 4A State Jazz Band Champions
Verdigris High School Graduation will be Friday, May 18, 2018 at 7pm at the Union Multipurpose Activity Center (UMAC) located at 6836 South Mingo Rd. in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Baccalaureate will be at the Verdigris Assembly of God Church at 3pm on Sunday, May 6th.
The last day of school, for students, is now scheduled to be May 25th.
The District Calendar was revised Wednesday, April 18th by the Verdigris Board of Education. This revision addressed how Verdigris Schools would make up days missed up through April,18th.
This revision can be found here.
We want to first thank you for the incredible outpouring of support you have given us during this walkout. We have been in constant
discussion as a teacher group regarding what is best for our students and community. We feel a deep conviction to advocate for our
students at the capitol as well as locally. So many of our teachers have been to the capitol day in and day out, as well as holding signs
here at home, to remind our legislators and our community members that the purpose of this walkout is for our students. Teaching is
more than a job to all of us. We recognized that we needed to support the momentum in our state and to pressure our legislators to
fund our students and our schools. We have had some success but we expect more from them. We have had many discussions with the
legislators and will continue to have more in the weeks to come. However, without your support we would not have been able to do this.
You are the reason we have been able to keep our motivation and to continue to fight. We cannot thank you enough.
Our school system and teachers have managed to work through these budget cuts to ensure our students get a sound education. Often
these budget cuts have happened silently as we continued to forge ahead for the benefit of our students. However, in our school system
we have lost both certified and support staff. In addition, our student population has grown by over one hundred students over the past
ten years. Due to continued funding cuts and student population growth, our system has struggled to add much needed certified and
support personnel.
We are very fortunate to have such a positive community that has supported our school in so many ways, including the passage of many
bond issues over the past few years. These bond issues have freed up funds for our school system, allowing more staff to be hired in
recent years. Verdigris Schools plans to add an Elementary Counselor, STEM Teacher (Secondary Science/Math), two Secondary ELA
Teachers, and an Elementary Special Education Teacher next year. These are positions that we could not add or had lost due to budget
cuts. More state funding will allow us to continue to hire more teachers for various subjects, across all grade levels, which will allow us to
keep up with our increasing student population and academic rigor needs.
In the years to come, we hope to lessen our class sizes as well as offer more system wide electives in the areas of STEM, the Arts, AP
courses, and upper level core courses, to name a few. If the legislature would secure a perpetual funding increase for the next few years,
these areas and more could be expanded.
As stated in the call or email sent on Tuesday, the teachers voted to return to school Monday, April 16th. However, THE FIGHT IS NOT
OVER! We will be sending a delegation of teachers and staff on a regular basis to develop long lasting relationships with our legislators
and to continue to advocate for adequate educational funding. Thereon, we will be developing the Verdigris Cardinals at the Capitol
group to continue education funding efforts. We would love your support in this process as well. Our goal is to continue to show our
legislators that we expect them to make education a priority and to do more this session and all sessions moving forward. We would
love for you to join us and be a part of this group. We will have more information on how you can do that in the days to come.
On Monday, April 9, 2018 the Verdigris School Board approved an updated calendar for the days missed prior to April 11th. Those four
days will be made up on the Fridays of April 27th, May 4th, and May 11th, and Wednesday, May 23rd. The Verdigris School Board will have
a Special Meeting to address the two additional days that need to be made up.
Testing will resume the week of April 16th and no earlier than Tuesday, April 17th as we feel our students need at least one day back in
class to prepare them for testing. Students and Parents/Guardians will be notified of the new testing dates.
We deeply appreciate the Verdigris community and all of your support during this process. This walkout was never intended to
negatively impact our students nor our community. We did not enjoy walking out of our classrooms and leaving our students and our
community in a lurch. However, we knew that something needed to happen to make education a priority to our legislators. Without your
support we would not have been able to persuade our legislators to make the changes they have thus far. With your continued support
we are hopeful for more positive changes to occur as we continue to apply pressure on our representatives.
The board and administration has supported us as a teacher group and has let us take the lead on how we have addressed the walkout.
We appreciate their support as well in making this happen and their continued support as we continue to advocate for our students. We
know that we are all in this together, fighting for the education our students deserve.
Thank you!
Verdigris Teachers & Staff
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