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In 2010, the Oklahoma Legislature passed and then-Gov. Brad Henry signed a bill allowing public high schools to offer students elective courses on the Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible ...
Oklahoma's top education official outraged civil rights groups and others when he ordered public schools to immediately begin incorporating the Bible into lesson plans for students in grades 5 ...
Oklahoma will require schools to teach the Bible and have a copy in every classroom, the state’s top education official announced Thursday. Effective immediately, Oklahoma schools are required ...
Oklahoma state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters sent a letter to state school districts on Thursday ordering them to incorporate the Bible “as an instructional support into the curriculum ...
The main teachers' labor union in Oklahoma said Walters' Bible order was unconstitutional and that state law said school districts have the right to decide which books are available in their ...
Educators in Oklahoma are refusing a state order to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans, setting up an inevitable showdown with the start of the school year just weeks away. Ryan Walters ...
The push to put Bibles in schools follows Walters’ mandate requiring the book to be made available in all classrooms. Walters has repeatedly touted the legally-challenged mandate in national ...
State schools Superintendent Ryan Walters issued a directive in late June that Oklahoma schools teach the Bible in every classroom, but his agency has yet to provide state school districts any ...