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| Name | Sandy Garrett |
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| Info | Sandy Garrett, Oklahoma's elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is the only woman in Oklahoma history to hold this title. With her November 2002 reelection, she is also the only Oklahoma woman to be elected to a statewide office four times.
Throughout her career, Superintendent Garrett has been an outspoken advocate for and active participant in school reform. While overseeing the daily operations of the State Department of Education, she has implemented the reform mandates of the landmark Education Reform and Funding Act of 1990 on schedule. Additionally, since taking office in 1991, she has significantly downsized the Department, saving taxpayers a cumulative $37.7 million. In addition, she appointed the state's first School Finance Task Force to develop recommendations for cutting costs and providing more secure funding for public schools.
As state superintendent, Sandy Garrett has focused much of her attention on increasing academic standards, improving reading skills, establishing character education programs, bringing technology to the classroom and making schools safer. She and her fellow members of the State Board of Education led the way in eliminating obstacles to student success with school deregulation, enforcing a uniform financial accounting system for schools and adopting Oklahoma�s first state core curriculum. She also started the nation�s first-ever statewide school safety hot line, 1-877-SAFE-CALL, ext. OK1, allowing patrons to anonymously report suspicious or potentially dangerous activity in schools. And, she appointed a Task Force on School Violence which made recommendations to the State Board of Education and Legislature in Spring 2000.
Superintendent Garrett�s public education experience is diverse and includes 15 years as a classroom teacher in Muskogee County Schools. In addition, she worked at the Department as coordinator of gifted programs as well as administrator of programs in rural education, technology, satellite education and library resources. She also played a pivotal role in implementing the state�s Learning by Satellite program and in establishing a two-way interactive fiber-optic instruction system in the Panhandle region. Her pioneering work in these two areas drew national attention to Oklahoma in the 1980s.
Among numerous honors and awards, Superintendent Garrett was most recently selected to be inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame (in March 2001), was inducted into the Oklahoma Educators Hall of Fame in August 2000, and is a member of the Northeastern State University Alumni Association Hall of Fame. In November 2000, she received the First Lady's Leadership in Literacy Award for her statewide efforts to improve reading instruction for children and expand literacy programs for adults.
Her constitutional posts include serving as Chairperson of both the State Board of Education and the State Board of Career and Technology Education, a member of the State Board of Equalization, the Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges and the School Land Commission. Superintendent Garrett also serves numerous other statutory roles both state and national.
You can contact Superintendent Garrett by e-mail, writing her at 2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4599, or phone number (405) 521-3301.
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