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Oklahoma's Superintendent of Education is partnering with PragerU propagandists to keep "woke" teachers out of the state's classrooms.

Peter Montgomery at PFAW's Right Wing Watch:

Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Education Ryan Walters is enlisting PragerU propagandists to devise an “assessment” that Walters says would protect students from “woke” teachers moving into the state from places with more progressive education policies like California or New York. It’s the latest Fox News bait from Walters, a Christian nationalist zealot and ardent MAGA activist, who announced the policy with typical-for-him smears about teacher unions wanting to “destroy this country.” Walters’ plan to screen teachers for “woke” attitudes comes as Oklahoma, which is ranked near the very bottom of states in educational achievement, is experiencing a serious teacher shortage. While Walters has portrayed the requirement as taking effect immediately, the details are still being worked out just weeks before the start of the new school year. Walters said the Prager assessment would evaluate teachers on their understanding of the Constitution, American exceptionalism, and the “fundamental biological differences between boys and girls.” He said teachers who do not pass the test would not get a teaching certificate. In announcing the plan, Walters declared, “We’re raising a generation of patriots, not activists, and I’ll fight tooth and nail to keep leftist propaganda out of our classrooms.” Of course, he’s fighting tooth and nail to bring right-wing propaganda into the classrooms in the guise of “patriotic education.” Walters says he’s out to ensure that teachers coming into Oklahoma don’t “malign President Trump.” PragerU’s CEO Marissa Streit said the assessment will “ensure teachers champion America’s greatness.”

This isn’t Walters’ first partnership with Prager. Last year, he appointed Dennis Prager and other right-wing activists to an “executive review committee” to provide advice on overhauling the state’s social studies curriculum. Right Wing Watch noted at the time that “the educational materials produced by Prager's own organization are rife with disinformation and right-wing propaganda.”

Oklahoma’s culture wars-obsessed Superintended of Public Education Ryan Walters enlists the help of right-wing indoctrination organization PragerU to enact an ideological purity test for teachers in the Sooner State to zot out “woke” teachers, especially from Blue states.

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