A charter school authorizer earns 3% of the school's state revenue in exchange for giving oversight and approving a charter's right to operate in Oklahoma. Oklahoma law prohibits money appropriated to one school district from flowing to another.Ī third entity in charge of Epic Blended, Rose State College, will no longer authorize the school. The Oklahoma State Department of Education confirmed its approval of the consolidation on Friday.Īnother agency overseeing Epic, the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board, encouraged the merger as a way to avoid improper commingling of funds between the two districts. "It takes a tremendous amount of administrative burden off this team trying to navigate two school districts when we were always operating really as one." "This is a huge step forward," Campbell said during the board meeting. Budgets for both districts have combined into one $266 million pot.īoard Chairperson Paul Campbell said Epic projects the consolidation could save at least $4 million through improved efficiency. Employees will work for one school district instead of two.
Maybe a first year teacher would be best in this situation.Epic students will no longer enroll in one branch or the other. This is just not the best situation for anyone with experience. What they aren't telling the new hires is that if you don't find enough students to pay for their guarantee they take it out of your bonus next year and you could end up making even less than you are making this year. The pay was low enough but then they decided to go with the monthly "gurantee" for new hires. It's impossible to fix a 15 year old who hasn't been working well in school all of his childhood, but the people at Epic expect miracles or they cut you. They expect you to fix their kids and the way they do their work online. I drove through traffic both ways, I was never compensated for extra time. I started meeting people in public places so I would at least have something to do while I waited for them to show up. This meant I would have to drive out 11 different places and see kids who may not even be there when I arrived.
I was given 27 students of which 11 were literally an hours drive from my home and I was expected to go see them at least every other week. Your former brick & mortar employer would rather train a monkey to do your job than to ever take you back.Īt first, it sounded great, working from home, being able to set your own hours.
There is no way to advance unless you're a family or friend of the founders. Everything seems very unprofessional and kind of thrown together with just enough to get by with, barely. The majority of the "superintendent" and "director" positions are filled with the owners' buddies, that really have no idea what they're doing. They will tease you with this "bonus", but then without any notice because you're not contracted or paid a guaranteed salary, that bonus structure changes and you realize all those long hours, holidays, weekends, summers, etc. They've found a very clever way to have you work a lot more hours for no extra money. Expect to be working nights and weekends without any extra pay. Not only will you be working more throughout the year for less money, but you'll be working very long hours, too. Several teachers made the move from brick & mortar to Epic thinking they'd make more money, but the truth is they've been there over a year and they still aren't even close to having the amount of students they were promised, so they could make more money and now they make less money than when they left "real school" and they have to work all summer, no spring break, no fall break and only a week around Christmas. They sales pitch you that you'll have "this" amount of students and make "this" amount of money. You are paid based on how many students you have.
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