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🩺📚 Surgeons in the Classroom at Trails Elementary! 📚🩺

Trails Elementary welcomed some very special guests: SURGEONS! 🧑‍⚕️👩‍⚕️ Fourth-grade students donned their scrubs and conducted text feature surgery, carefully dissecting and analyzing text features to deepen their understanding of informational texts. ✂️📖

This hands-on activity was both fun and educational, bringing literacy skills to life in a unique and memorable way. A big shoutout to our creative teachers for inspiring such engaging learning experiences! ❤️🖤

Way to go, young surgeons—we’re so proud of your hard work!

#BroncoPride #MPSLearningInAction #EveryMomentMatters #MPSClassrooms 🩺✂️📖

Subject: Attendance Boundary Realignment for Intermediate and Middle Schools

Mustang Families,

As our community continues to grow, Mustang Public Schools remains committed to providing a high-quality educational experience for all students. To meet the needs of our expanding district and prepare for additional growth, it has become necessary to realign the attendance boundaries for our intermediate and middle schools.

These boundary adjustments are part of our district’s comprehensive efforts to provide balanced, effective learning environments for all students.  The new boundaries have been carefully designed to address several important goals:

• Alleviate Overpopulation: Adjust boundaries to reduce overpopulation at some sites, ensuring equitable distribution of students;
• Plan for Growth: Create boundaries that account for anticipated growth across our district;
• Enhance Consistency: Establish a more seamless progression for students as they transition from elementary to intermediate to middle school.

As we worked through this process, we adhered to the following guiding principles to minimize disruption whenever possible:

• Housing additions were kept intact to preserve neighborhood connections.
• Transportation plans prioritize student safety, with a goal of maintaining bus rides under 40 minutes (rural routes are closely monitored).
• Buses will not be routed past one school to reach another.
• The "right-turn-only" rule is maintained for bus routes on high-traffic, four-lane roads.

These changes align with the thoughtful and meticulous process used for the recent elementary boundary realignment. Please know that these decisions are not made lightly; every aspect has been carefully considered, incorporating extensive planning and analysis of demographic studies, student population data, transportation logistics, and anticipated growth patterns.  

We understand that this process can raise concerns and questions, especially when families have built strong connections to their current schools. We are committed to ensuring that this transition minimizes disruption while maximizing opportunities for student success. To help families navigate this process, we encourage you to visit our website at https://www.mustangps.org/families-students/enrollment, where you can learn more, view updated boundary maps, or ask questions/provide feedback.  

This boundary realignment ensures that all our intermediate and middle schools can continue providing the experience and support that Mustang families expect. While change can be difficult, we are confident that transitioning families will quickly feel at home and build strong connections in their new schools.  Thank you for your continued support of Mustang Public Schools. Together, we are building a bright future for our students and our community.

Mustang Public Schools Responds to PowerSchool Cybersecurity Incident

(Mustang, Oklahoma – January 13, 2025) – Mustang Public Schools (MPS) has been informed of a cybersecurity incident involving PowerSchool, the district’s student information system provider. According to PowerSchool, an unauthorized party accessed their PowerSource portal, which allowed access to specific data from school districts across the country, including Mustang Public Schools.

What Happened: On December 28, 2024, PowerSchool identified unauthorized access to its PowerSource portal using a compromised credential. The breach affected data from student and staff tables, including, for Mustang, records dating back to 2009. Importantly, PowerSchool has confirmed that this breach did not impact any other systems or services used by the district.

What Data Was Affected: The affected data accessed includes:

• For Staff: Limited personal information such as names, addresses, work contact information, and, in 15 cases, Social Security numbers.
• For Students: Information, including names/addresses (including parent/guardian), DOB, grade levels, phone numbers, ethnicity, student alerts (if present), state student ID numbers, and emergency contacts.

Passwords were not included in the compromised data, and current District systems remain secure.

Our Response: Mustang Public Schools is working closely with PowerSchool, third-party cybersecurity experts, and law enforcement to address this issue. PowerSchool has taken steps to contain the breach, including deactivating the compromised credentials, enhancing security protocols, and monitoring for potential misuse of data.

Additionally, Mustang Public Schools is committed to:

• Supporting affected individuals by connecting them with PowerSchool which has promised to provide resources such as credit monitoring and identity protection services where applicable.
• Keeping our families and staff informed with transparent and timely updates as more information becomes available.

What You Can Do: While PowerSchool has indicated that the data is not expected to be shared or made public, Mustang Public Schools encourages families and staff to remain vigilant by monitoring for unusual activity related to personal information. We are working with PowerSchool to ensure that all affected individuals have the resources they need to safeguard their information.

Looking Ahead: “We understand how concerning this situation is for our families and staff,” said Charles Bradley, Superintendent of Mustang Public Schools. “While this incident occurred outside of our systems, we are taking every step to ensure our community is informed and supported as we navigate this challenge together.”

For further updates, please visit https://www.powerschool.com/security/sis-incident/ or contact PowerSchool directly at 877-873-1550 or Security@PowerSchool.com.

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About Mustang Public Schools

The Mustang Public School District covers over 72 square miles in Oklahoma and Canadian counties, with the City of Mustang at its center. The district is the largest employer in Canadian County, with more than 1,800 certified and support employees, and serves over 13,500 students. As one of Oklahoma’s Top Workplaces, the school district offers a comprehensive compensation package for full-time employees, in addition to a satisfying working environment. There are eight (soon to be 9) elementary schools (grades PreK-4), three intermediate centers (grades 5-6), three middle schools (grades 7-8), one high school (grades 9-12), and an educational center which houses pre-kindergarten and alternative education.
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🌟✨ Celebrating Excellence: 2024-2025 School Site Teachers of the Year! ✨🌟

Join us in congratulating this year's School Site Teachers of the Year! These incredible educators represent the passion, dedication, and excellence that define Mustang Public Schools. ❤️🖤

We’re so proud of these individuals for their hard work and for inspiring their students and colleagues every day. Stay tuned for our #StaffSpotlight posts this spring, where we’ll feature each of these outstanding teachers and their contributions to our schools!

Help us show appreciation for these educators by leaving a comment below—your kind words mean so much! 📝👏

#BroncoPride #PPF #MPSTOY2024 #TeachersOfTheYear 🌟❤️🖤