Oklahoma MAGA Test Will “Weed Out Woke Teachers”

July 19, 2025 Christianists, Extremists

Peter Montgomery reports at 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.”

Read the full article. Walters last appeared here when he announced that starting this year, Oklahoma’s students will be taught that the 2020 election was stolen. He is widely expected to run for governor next year as Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is term-limited.



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