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Posted: Jun 18, 2025 9:55 AMUpdated: Jun 18, 2025 9:55 AM
Bartlesville Public Schools Summer News
Tom Davis
Bartlesville High School Graduation, a new school board member, and no virtual days starting this fall were the main topics of our discussion with Chuck McCauley, Bartlesville Public Schools Superintendent, on COMMUNITY CONNECTION
The BHS graduating class of 2025 had a picture perfect setting for their comencement exercises. Supt McCauely remarked, "Thinking about that day, that week, and that day. And oh my gosh, we had a good little downpour that afternoon. I've done about 25 of those graduations now here in Bartlesville, and that might have been the best weather we ended up having."
McCauley announced a new school board member. Jason Sauer resigned last month, at our last month's meeting. McCauley said it came down to two great candidates but the board appointed Mandy Johnston.
McCauley said, "Mandy is a manager with Phillips 66. She's a chemical engineer. She and her husband, her family, have been in Bartlesville around 20 years now. They have two kids in school. They've got a, their son will be a sophomore and a daughter that just finished at Ranch Heights. She'll be over at Madison."
McCauley the reminded the audience that the school removed virtual days from the school calendar. Bartlesville Public Schools will have no scheduled distance learning days on our calendar. However, the schools will be starting the same day and ending the same time, but that's the only change that was made. He added, "We won't be scheduling any virtual days for inclement weather. Our inclement weather plan will include, we have about five days built into our calendar. So if we're out during the school year, it'll just be, we'll just be out of school. We have five days built in."
McCauley further explained that if they have extended inclement weather days, we've got five days built into the calendar. We'll have an additional two days that we can change to in-person instruction if necessary for that. And then lastly, if it happens to go beyond that, what we would do is we would add some minutes to our calendar in the spring so that we would be sure and get out before Memorial Day.
Lastly, the school board approved a renewed agreement with the city of Bartlesville for school resource officers. There is no change to that agreement, the board simpley clarified some things on the funding of it.
McCauley assured everyone that Bartlesville Public Schools will continue to have 10 school resource officers in the district. We'll have two at Bartlesville High School just because of the size. And then we have one at every other school.
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