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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 ...
The Oklahoma State Department of Education wants a lawsuit filed by a Mayes County man over state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters’ Bible-teaching mandate for Oklahoma schools moved to ...
The state attorney general’s office has said Oklahoma law already allows for the Bible to be taught in classrooms, but doing so is a district-by-district decision. ... issued a directive in late ...
Under the mandate, Oklahoma schools must incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for all public school students in grades five through 12 in Oklahoma. School districts also have been offered guidance from law firms that represent them and the state’s largest teachers union, the Oklahoma Education Association, that the superintendent doesn't ...
Oklahoma law already allows the Bible to be used in school curriculum. But could Ryan Walters' memo be unconstitutional? At least one state official said Walters isn't breaking any new ground.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of Oklahoma parents of public school students, teachers and ministers filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop the state's top education official from forcing schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students in grades 5 through 12.
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 ...
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 ...