About Us
WELCOME
Welcome to the Oklahoma Schools Advisory Council. Our purpose is to help the Oklahoma education community promote and strengthen public education, and we hope this site answers most of what brought you here.
Looking for a workshop? Visit Events to browse upcoming Trainings and Meetings. We post our schedule several months ahead.
Want to check your district's membership? Our member list is on the Members page. If your district isn't on it, you can join right there — there's no cut-off date for new memberships.
Want to support our work? Membership directly funds the professional development and training we provide to Oklahoma educators. Your support means a great deal to us.
We also post frequently on Facebook, including fast registration links for new workshops, so follow us there to hear about trainings first.
Have a question, a comment, or a workshop topic you'd like us to cover? Call (918) 687-0597 or email info@osac.us. We'd like to hear from you.
OUR MISSION
"Our main objective is to identify and and meet the needs of Oklahoma educators by providing workshops and seminars, and supporting education."
OUR HISTORY
The Oklahoma Schools Advisory Council was formed in March 1980 under the Oklahoma Interlocal Cooperation Act (74 O.S. § 1001 et seq.). Before then, the Council operated as the Educational Planning Section of the Eastern Oklahoma Development District (EODD), where it was never given the staffing it needed to reach its potential.
More than forty school districts across the original seven-county EODD region joined as charter members at the Council's founding. Membership has been open to any interested educational entity or individual in Oklahoma from the start, and by January 1, 2001, it had grown to 190 public school districts, technology centers, colleges, and universities. Today the Council serves 270 members.
In 1987, the Council identified a need for better cost accounting across Oklahoma school districts and sponsored a series of ten workshops on the subject. That work contributed to the development and implementation of the Oklahoma Cost Accounting System (OCAS) by the Oklahoma State Department of Education — the framework Oklahoma districts still use to code and report their spending today.
The Council also serves as a resource to state legislators and Oklahoma's congressional delegation on a wide range of education issues, and makes every effort to provide complete and accurate information to support their work.