A state program is combating Oklahoma's teacher shortage, by creating homegrown educators while they are still high school students. 

Students are seeing firsthand how their STEM classes in school can be applied to careers right here in Oklahoma City. 

Two Oklahoma City charter schools had to figure out a way to feed hundreds of students days before class started, after the public school district dropped them from the lunch program. The letter in July from OKCPS came as somewhat of a surprise to the administrators at Dove Science Academy.