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Oklahoma City’s NPR affiliate reports:
Dozens of school district superintendents across the state say they will not change their instructional practices to accommodate State Superintendent Ryan Walters’ classroom Bible directive. June 27, Walters announced at a State Board of Education meeting that “every teacher, every classroom in the state will have a Bible in the classroom and will be teaching from the Bible in the classroom.”
StateImpact sent a survey to all of the districts in the state to find out how many were implementing changes this year in response to the directive. Of about 540 public districts and charter schools, 54 superintendents responded to the survey. Asked if their district was changing the way it offers social studies and/or English Language Arts instruction to require educators to teach on or from the Bible, 46 said no, and two said yes. Others responded they were unclear on the guidelines.
Read the full article. When I last reported on this issue several weeks ago, only a handful were saying that they would not comply. Walters has said that any teacher who refuses to teach from the bible would lose their license. Last month Republican lawmakers threatened to impeach Walters for refusing to account for his spending, which has included multiple out of state trips to appear at Christian nationalist and pro-Trump events.
Dozens of Oklahoma superintendents say they will not change their instructional practices to accommodate Walters’ classroom Bible directive. StateImpact has the results of a new survey: https://t.co/VEAqLEh9nn
— StateImpact Oklahoma (@StateImpactOK) September 3, 2024