The ACE Task Force needs your input!

...and the ONLY way for you to give it is to complete the survey on the State Department of Education's web site. Go to www.sde.state.ok.us and look on the right side of the page for the link to the ACE Task Force (or just go directly to www.sde.state.ok.us/ACE). The survey does take about 15 minutes. Please consider your responses carefully and don't be afraid to mark Other!!

Please remember that when we deny students a diploma, we are denying them a real future. We at CSDC/OTAC are very concerned about the effects of all these graduation requirements and tests on at-risk students who deserve to graduate from high school. High school is more than college prep -- at least it always has been more than that. We risk making our high schools irrelevant to at least a quarter of our students.

If you know any of the members of the task force, you should feel free to contact them directly and give them your unfiltered input. They need it. This task force will make recommendations that will affect every student who goes to high school in Oklahoma. Here is a list of the members:

Janet Barresi Dentist Oklahoma City
Phil Berkenbile Director, Career and Technology Education Stillwater
Odilia Dank State Representative Oklahoma City
Sandy Garrett State Superintendent of Public Instruction Oklahoma City
Kirby Lehman Superintendent, Jenks Public Schools
Stanley Lybarger President/CEO, Bank of Oklahoma Tulsa
Robert McCormick Private Business Sector Stillwater
Bob Moore Superintendent, Oklahoma City Public Schools
Susan Paddack State Senator Ada
Paul Risser Chancellor, State Regents for Higher Education Oklahoma City
David Sawyer Superintendent, Tulsa Public Schools
Steve Shiever Superintendent, Crescent Public Schools
Barbara Staggs State Representative Muskogee
Lynn Stockley High School Counselor, Booker T. Washington High School Tulsa
Marsha Strunk High School English Teacher, Minco Public Schools
Kathleen Wilcoxson State Senator Oklahoma City
Gwendolyn Wilson Middle School Social Studies Teacher, Millwood Public Schools
Jeffrey Winters School Board Member, Harrah Public Schools
Martha Wissler High School Math Teacher, Memorial High School Edmond