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OKCPS board approves 2025–26 course catalog, retains employee contract and upholds superintendent on transfer denials; several consent items carried
Summary
The Oklahoma City Public Schools Board approved the 2025–26 middle and high school course catalog and took multiple personnel and procedural votes at its Jan. 13 meeting, with all recorded motions carrying by 7–0 margins.
The Oklahoma City Public Schools Board of Education voted on several agenda items Jan. 13, approving the 2025–26 middle and high school course catalog, declining to accept a resignation to hold a contract, approving the consent agenda and upholding the superintendent’s recommendation on student transfer denials following executive session.
Course catalog: The board voted to approve the 2025–26 OKCPS Middle and High School Course Catalog. The motion was presented as an action item after a prior information presentation; the board recorded the motion as passing with seven aye votes and zero nays.
Personnel contract hold: On personnel item 6.02 the board moved not to accept the resignation of Renee Robertson in order to hold her contract with Oklahoma City Public Schools. The board approved that motion; the clerk recorded seven aye votes and zero nays.
Consent agenda: The consent agenda (7.01) was presented and approved with seven aye votes and zero nays. No items were pulled for separate consideration.
Executive session and transfer appeals: The board entered executive session at 6:27 p.m. and returned at 6:54 p.m., accompanied by a public announcement from the board clerk that “the Board entered into executive session at 6:27 p.m. and returned to open session at 6:54 p.m. on January 13, 2025.” The clerk’s readout of executive-session attendance listed the superintendent and board members among those present and recorded that the board discussed student transfer denial appeals and the superintendent’s evaluation and that no actions were taken during the closed session.
After returning to open session, a motion was made to uphold the superintendent’s recommendation to deny the student transfer denials. That motion was seconded and passed with seven aye votes and zero nays; the clerk read each board member’s affirmative vote during the roll call.
Meeting close: The board then moved to adjourn; that motion carried unanimously.
Where the record does not identify a motion mover by name, the board’s official roll-call and clerk’s statements have been used to summarize outcomes. No additional policy changes or contract terms were stated in the public minutes at the time of the vote.
