Sandy Garrett

Sandy Garrett

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birth_place = Muskogee, Oklahoma
residence = Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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office = Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction
term_start = 1990
term_end = Present
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website = [http://www.sandygarrett.net/ Official website]
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Sandy Garrett is an American Democratic politician from the US state of Oklahoma. Garrett is currently serving as the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction.

She was first elected to this office in 1990, and again in 1994, 1998, 2002, and 2006. Garrett is the only woman to hold the office of Superintendent and is the only woman to hold a statewide office for five consecutive terms.

Biography

Sandy Garrett was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and later graduated from Stilwell High School. She received her bachelor's degree and master's degrees from Northeastern State University. Garrett pursued her postgraduate education at the University of Oklahoma and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She later returned to Muskogee where she spent 15 years as a teacher and a gifted programs coordinator in Muskogee County schools. After her years as a teacher, Garrett joined the Oklahoma State Department of Education as the Gifted and Talented Programs Coordinator. She would later became Executive Director of Education Programs, which included rural education, technology, satellite instruction, media applications, and library resources.

Throughout her career in Oklahoma Department of Education, Garrett was an outspoken advocate for children and active participant in education reform. She 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 drew national attention to Oklahoma in the 1980s. In 1988, she was named Cabinet Secretary of Education by Governor of Oklahoma Henry Bellmon.

In 1990, Garrett was the first woman elected to serve as the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction. As the Chief Executive Officer of the State Department of Education, Superintendent Garrett has led the timely implementation of the mandates of Oklahoma 's landmark Education Reform Act of 1990. Additionally, since taking office in 1991, she has downsized the Department, saving taxpayers a cumulative $52.7 million. A hallmark of her administration, Superintendent Garrett's administration has been key to the development of Oklahoma's Pre-Kindergarten programs throughout the state. Garret has raised standards to the extent that Oklahoma is recognized as a national model by the National Institute for Early Education Research. Increasing academic standards, improving reading skills, bringing technology to the classroom and making schools safer are also priorities Superintendent Garrett continues to pursue.

Awards

*The Silver Beaver Award from the Boy Scouts of America in 2001
*Named one of the “Fifty Making a Difference” in Oklahoma by The Journal Record.
*She was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in March 2001
*Inducted into the Oklahoma Educators Hall of Fame in August 2000
*Member of the Northeastern State University Alumni Association Hall of Fame.
*She received the First Lady's Leadership in Literacy Award in November 2000.

Garrett has been elected each time by a wide vote of popular approval.

External links

* [http://www.sandygarrett.net/ Official website]
* [http://www.oeta.onenet.net/rss/audio/OKFORUM101506.mp3 Audio interview] with her and her 2006 challenger, Bill Crozier .


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