A new test will be administered to out-of-state teachers coming to Oklahoma from blue states in a move the state superintendent said is meant to root out “radical leftist ideology” from classrooms.
The test, set to be administered by conservative educational platform PragerU, will be required for the teachers to receive an Oklahoma certification.
“As long as I am superintendent, Oklahoma classrooms will be safeguarded from the radical leftist ideology fostered in places like California and New York. Any teacher coming from these states will be required to pass our new PragerU assessment before receiving certification, because we refuse to let Gavin Newsom’s woke, Marxist agenda turn Oklahoma into the same dumpster fire California has become,” Ryan Walters, state superintendent of public instruction, said.
The test has not been administered yet, but a spokesperson for Walters’s office said it will be “very soon.”
While the full test was not shared, some questions seen by The Hill ask incoming teachers basic civics questions, such as the first three words of the Constitution and why freedom of religion is important in America.
The move comes after other controversial initiatives by Walters in Oklahoma such as trying to put Bibles in every classroom and changing the way the 2020 election is taught to work in President Trump’s baseless allegations of widespread fraud.
