It was not immediately clear how the Bible would be taught or what instructional standards around it would require.
Ryan Walters, then a Republican candidate for Oklahoma state superintendent, speaks at a rally in Oklahoma City in 2022. Oklahoma’s state superintendent on Thursday mandated that all public schools teach the Bible in a move that he said was meant to impart “historical understanding” but that critics say blurs the constitutional boundary between church and state.
A memo to Oklahoma school districts from Walters’s office said schools “are required to incorporate the Bible, which includes the Ten Commandments,” into curriculum for fifth through twelfth grades, effective immediately.all public schools in the state to display the Ten Commandments, religious and ethical directives handed down to the prophet Moses in the Bible. Opponents have sued to stop the statute’s implementation.
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