Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Whitman ES District Capacity
District: Tulsa Public Schools
• A safe and secure school bus stop and ride.
• An orderly school bus at all times.
• Consistency of action for all student management on the school bus.
Fact Facts: TPS Transportation is the second largest pupil transportation operation in the state of Oklahoma.
TPS transports over 15,000 students daily on the largest fleet of CNG vehicles in the state. More than 300 staff
members effectively support the following five major department business functions:
1. Transportation Services
2. Student routing and scheduling
3. Safety and training
4. Fleet Maintenance
5. Fiscal accountability
DETERMINATION OF CAPACITY BY REVIEWERS AND COMMENTS
Local, state, and federal funds aligned to subgroup academic goals
DISTRICT EVIDENCE OF CAPACITY SUBMITTED FOR REVIEW
At Whitman, our federal funds are used for various purposes to support our goals of all of our students reading
on grade level and being able to comprehend and apply what they read every day by providing afterschool
tutoring twice a week, Teacher Assistants to help create small group instruction, Accelerated Reader and Math
for 2nd‐ 5th Grade, Scholastic Reading Kits, listening centers to help remedial readers, instructional bulletin
boards supplies to promote learning throughout the school, Read 180 and Systems 44 curriculum to aid with
students becoming better readers. Our local budget aligns with this goal by helping to provide for a teacher’s
assistant, which contributes to smaller group settings to assist students to be able to read on grade level as
well as provide some instructional supplies to enhance our Accelerated Reading and Math programs. In
previous years, we received Reading Sufficiency Funds from the State to help with our goal of every child
reading on grade level. With these funds, tutoring was provided after school as well as a few reading
interventionist were employed to help struggling students to read and comprehend what they read and review
PASS objectives that students did not have great success with.
At Whitman we also have several adopters who help with our academic goals. One of them purchased the
Accelerated Reader Program for our school this year, books for each student to take home, student agendas to
help with organizational skills and reflect on what was taught daily, over 50 volunteers to read to students and
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