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T<\/span>he future that the Trump administration envisions for public schools is more patriotic, more Christian and less \u201cwoke.\u201d Want to know how that might play out? Look to Oklahoma.<\/p>

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Oklahoma has spent the past few years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride about America\u2019s history, with political leaders and legislators working their way through the conservative agenda for overhauling education.<\/p>\n

Academics, educators and critics alike refer to Oklahoma as ground zero for pushing education to the right. Or, as one teacher put it, \u201cthe canary on the prairie.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its \u201cAmerica First\u201d agenda, which includes the expansion of private school vouchers and prohibitions on lessons about race and sex, Oklahoma had been there, done that.<\/p>\n

The Republican supermajority in the state Legislature \u2014 where some members identify as Christian nationalists \u2014 passed sweeping restrictions on teaching about racism and gender in 2021, prompting districts to review whether teachers\u2019 lessons might make students \u201cfeel discomfort, guilt, anguish\u201d or other psychological distress about their race. The following year, it adopted one of the country\u2019s first anti-transgender school bathroom bills, requiring students to use restrooms and locker rooms consistent with the gender they were assigned at birth or face discipline.<\/p>\n

While he was state schools superintendent, Ryan Walters demanded Bibles be placed in every classroom, created a state Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism, and encouraged schools to use online \u201cpro-America\u201d content from conservative media nonprofit PragerU. He called teachers unions \u201cterrorist\u201d organizations, railed against \u201cwoke\u201d classrooms, threatened to yank the accreditation of school districts that resisted his orders and commissioned a test to measure whether teacher applicants from liberal states had \u201cAmerica First\u201d knowledge.<\/p>\n

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Many of the changes endorsed by the state\u2019s leaders have elements of Christian nationalism, which holds that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and often downplays troubling episodes in the country\u2019s history to instead emphasize patriotism and a God-given destiny.<\/p>\n

Walters, who declined to comment for this story, resigned at the end of September and became CEO of the Teacher Freedom Alliance, an arm of the conservative think tank Freedom Foundation that aims to \u201cfight the woke liberal union mob.\u201d But much of the transformation in Oklahoma education policy that he helped turbocharge is codified in the state\u2019s rules and laws.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the testing ground. Every single state needs to pay attention,\u201d warned Jena Nelson, a moderate Democrat who lost the state superintendent\u2019s race to Walters in 2022 and is now running for Congress.<\/p>\n

ProPublica has reported that Education Secretary Linda McMahon has brought in a team of strategists who are working to radically shift how children will learn in America, even as they carry out the \u201cfinal mission\u201d to shut down the federal agency. Some of those strategists have spoken of their desire to dismantle public education. Others hope to push it in the same direction as Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

Walters tapped the president of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that published Project 2025 and the blueprints that preceded it, to help rewrite Oklahoma\u2019s social studies standards. The Legislature did not reject the rewrite, so the standards now include roughly 40 points about the Bible, Jesus and Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 presidential election results and the origins of COVID-19. If the new standards survive a legal challenge, they could be in place until they\u2019re up for review again in six years.<\/p>\n

But while Oklahoma made these shifts, it has consistently ranked near the bottom on national measures of student performance. Scores on eighth grade reading and math in national evaluations are abysmal. Only New Mexico\u2019s proficiency rates rank lower. The high school dropout rate is one of the highest in the country, while spending on education is one of the lowest. Only three other states \u2014 Utah, Idaho and Arizona \u2014 spend less per pupil. And in the most recent federal data about average teacher pay, Oklahoma tied with Mississippi for dead last. Many school superintendents and parents say state leaders have been fixated on the wrong things if the goal is to improve schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe attention to the culture war thing means that there\u2019s a lot of distraction from the basic needs of kids being met,\u201d said Aysha Prather, a parent who has closely followed changes in state education policy. Her transgender son is a plaintiff in a 2022 lawsuit challenging the state\u2019s bathroom ban. That case remains on appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe school should be the nicest, happiest, best resourced place in a community,\u201d she added. \u201cThat\u2019s how we show that we value kids. And that is obviously not how most of our Legislature or state government feels about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement to ProPublica, the new state superintendent, Lindel Fields, said that he\u2019s sorting through previous rules and edicts that have created \u201cmuch confusion\u201d for schools, including about the standards and the PragerU teacher certification tests. He said the public rightfully has questions about how the state Education Department changes after Walters\u2019 tenure, but \u201cgiven all these pressing tasks, we simply don\u2019t have time for looking backward. Whether we are 50th or 46th or 25th in education, we have work to do to move our state forward,\u201d Fields wrote. He said his first tasks are \u201cresolving a number of outstanding issues that are hindering operations\u201d including creating a budget for the agency.<\/p>\n

Public school superintendents do not oppose all of the mandates from the past several years. When Walters directed schools last year to place Bibles in every classroom and teach from them, one district superintendent emailed to thank him for offering \u201ccover\u201d to incorporate Bible-focused lessons, according to news reports.<\/p>\n

Another superintendent, Tommy Turner of Battiest Public Schools, said students at his schools have always had access to the Bible. The district still puts on a Christmas program and observes a moment of silence to start the day, and the school board prays before meetings.<\/p>\n

\u201cChrist never left the school,\u201d he said in an interview in his office.<\/p>\n

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A lifelong Republican who works in a remote stretch of southeast Oklahoma, Turner said he is concerned about the state\u2019s priorities and doesn\u2019t see Bibles as the most pressing issues.<\/p>\n

In his district, the cafeteria needs repairs even after the emergency replacement of a roof that had a gaping hole in it. Many of his teachers work second jobs on weekends because the pay\u2019s so low. Nail heads are poking through the gym\u2019s thin hardwood floors. The district has lost 15% of its students to an online charter school and homeschooling. Voters have rejected three bond issues in a row for building repairs and renovations.<\/p>\n

Turner said he\u2019d like to retire, but he loves the students and wants to protect his little district. He put on his cowboy hat, apologized for the pile of dead wasps on his office floor \u2014 the infestations barely register anymore \u2014 and walked over to the high school. He said he hadn\u2019t even read the new social studies standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have time to chase every rabbit,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve got a school to run.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The changes to Oklahoma\u2019s curriculum rules don\u2019t just touch on national issues around race and gender. Here, teachers aren\u2019t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 \u2014 a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history \u2014 was perpetrated by racists.<\/p>\n

State social studies standards for years have included discussion of how white Tulsans murdered as many as 300 Black people. But once the 2021 state law that restricted teaching about race and gender passed, some teachers avoided the topic.<\/p>\n

The law prohibits teachers from singling out specific racial groups as responsible for past racism. It specifies that individuals of a certain race shouldn\u2019t be portrayed as inherently racist, \u201cwhether consciously or unconsciously.\u201d In addition to teachers\u2019 licensure being on the line, repeated failure to comply would allow the state to revoke district accreditation, which could result in a state takeover.<\/p>\n

When educators questioned how to teach about a race massacre without running afoul of the law, state legislators and the Tulsa County chapter of the conservative parent group Moms for Liberty weighed in to say that white people today shouldn\u2019t feel shame and that the massacre\u2019s perpetrators shouldn\u2019t be cast as racists. A Moms for Liberty chapter representative did not respond to questions from ProPublica.<\/p>\n

At a speaking engagement at the Norman Public Library in 2023, Walters suggested teachers present the facts about the murders but should not say \u201cthe skin color determined it.\u201d Even two years after the law went into effect, news reports said teachers were still treading lightly on the race massacre, wary of the state suspending or revoking their licenses for exposing students to prohibited concepts. Those fears are not hypothetical; the state has revoked at least one teacher\u2019s license and suspended two others\u2019.<\/p>\n

Other historic episodes that reveal racism also are getting a new look in Oklahoma through the state\u2019s partnership with PragerU Kids, which creates short-form videos to counter what its founder believes is left-wing ideology in schools.<\/p>\n

Teachers in the state aren\u2019t required to use the videos, but some like them and show them in class. The videos align with conservatives\u2019 push to teach a positive view of America\u2019s past and with the state\u2019s rules on teaching about race and gender. For instance, PragerU Kids\u2019 version of Booker T. Washington\u2019s story is a cheery lesson in self-sufficiency and acceptance. Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.<\/p>\n

The video does not linger on his being born into \u201cthe most miserable, desolate and discouraging surroundings\u201d or, as he wrote in his autobiography, that slavery was \u201ca sin that at some time we shall have to pay for.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAmerica was one of the first places on Earth to outlaw slavery,\u201d a cartoon version of Washington tells two time-traveling children in the PragerU video, so \u201cI am proud and thankful.\u201d (The U.S. did ban importing slaves in 1808, but it did not enforce that law and did not outlaw owning people altogether until 1865, after Britain, Denmark, France and Spain had done so.)<\/p>\n

The Washington character says in the video that he devoted his life to teaching people \u201cthe importance of independence and making themselves as valuable as possible.\u201d And when one child says she\u2019s sorry that he and other Black Americans faced segregation and discrimination, Washington thanks her for her sympathy but assures the child, who is white, that she\u2019s done nothing wrong.<\/p>\n

Echoing a conservative talking point, the cartoon Washington says, \u201cFuture generations are never responsible for the sins of the past.\u201d<\/p>

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Jermaine Thibodeaux, a historian at the University of Oklahoma, said he is familiar with the PragerU videos and considers them an ideological tool of a \u201creeducation project nationwide\u201d that can be misleading.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s something Washington necessarily uttered,\u201d he said of the quote about future generations.<\/p>\n

The value Washington placed on independence, Thibodeaux added, was \u201cpredicated on the notions of self-sufficiency post-slavery, when there was little help coming from the government.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for PragerU declined to comment for this story.<\/p>\n

Pressure to keep squeezing social justice and LGBTQ+ issues out of classrooms has been intensifying since 2021, when Republican state lawmakers began pushing \u201cdirty book\u201d legislation that would censor school libraries. One bill, which didn\u2019t pass, called for firing school employees and fining offenders $10,000 each time they \u201cpromoted positions in opposition to closely held religious beliefs of the student.\u201d That was the backdrop when the state accused Summer Boismier of \u201cmoral turpitude\u201d and then revoked her teaching license last year.<\/p>\n

The English department at Norman High School near Oklahoma City told Boismier and her colleagues they needed to pull titles that might be considered racially divisive or contain themes about sex and gender. Or they could turn books around on the shelves so students couldn\u2019t see the titles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember just sitting in my seat shaking. I had colleagues in the room who were in tears,\u201d Boismier said. Given the choice to purge books or hide their covers, Boismier did neither. She wrapped her classroom\u2019s bookshelf in red butcher paper and wrote \u201cbooks the state doesn\u2019t want you to read\u201d on it in black marker. She added a QR code linking to the Brooklyn Public Library, where students could get a library card and virtual access to books considered inappropriate in Oklahoma, then posted a photo of it all on social media.<\/p>\n

Boismier, who resigned in protest of the 2021 law, challenged the license revocation in court, and the case is ongoing. She said she does not regret taking a stand against a law she views as unjust. The state has argued the revocation is valid.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am living every teacher in Oklahoma\u2019s worst nightmare right now,\u201d she said. \u201cI am unemployable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the Battiest district, where Turner is superintendent, an elementary reading teacher told ProPublica that just to be safe, she removed books about diversity and including others who are different. She said that was uncomfortable; half of her students are Native American, and so is she.<\/p>\n

Adopted this year, the state\u2019s new social studies standards provide even more specifics about what should be taught. They include the expectation that students know \u201cstories from Christianity that influenced the American Founders and culture, including the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth (e.g., the \u2018Golden Rule,\u2019 the Sermon on the Mount),\u201d to second graders. A state court last month issued a temporary stay on requiring schools to follow the standards while a lawsuit against them plays out.<\/p>\n

In addition, the new standards accept Trump\u2019s false claims about the 2020 election. They dictate that ninth graders learn about \u201cdiscrepancies\u201d in election results including \u201cthe sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, the security risks of mail-in balloting, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters\u201d and other unsupported conservative talking points. The Trump campaign and supporters filed at least 60 lawsuits covering these points; nearly all were dismissed as meritless or were decided against Trump. The election skepticism standard has left the superintendent of a roughly 2,000-student district north of Tulsa confused. He said he and other superintendents are unsure how they would navigate those but are hopeful that \u201cstandards rooted in fact prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere comes a point where curriculum cannot be opinion,\u201d said the superintendent, who didn\u2019t want to be named because he feared retaliation. \u201cI\u2019m not trying to get involved in conspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The push by state leaders to embed more Christian values in schools isn\u2019t what keeps many superintendents in the rural parts of the state up at night. They say the Bible has never left their classrooms.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am smack-dab right in the middle of the Bible Belt,\u201d said the leader of a tiny district on the western side of the state. \u201cWe are small, but we have seven churches. You\u2019re talking \u2018Footloose\u2019 here.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she doesn\u2019t disagree with everything the Legislature and Walters have done, she said she feels like some of their actions undermine public schools and could \u201cshut down rural Oklahoma.\u201d<\/p>\n

She and other leaders of public school districts worry that the state\u2019s expanded school choice program, which allows families to get tax credits if they attend private and religious schools, will draw away students from their districts and, ultimately, erode their funding. Congress passed the first federal private school tax credit in July.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just the second year of the statewide tax credit program approved by the Legislature that allows students to use public funds to attend private and religious schools. The credits cost the state nearly $250 million in tax revenue this school year and subsidizes almost 40,000 students. That money, superintendents say, is desperately needed in their districts.<\/p>\n

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The state also has encouraged the growth of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run and subject to fewer regulations. Last year, the state\u2019s third-largest district, behind the Oklahoma City and Tulsa districts, wasn\u2019t a traditional one. It was EPIC, a statewide online charter school. Walters and Gov. Kevin Stitt supported St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in its efforts to become the country\u2019s first religious charter school. The Supreme Court blocked it from opening.<\/p>\n

Even communities with few private schools feel threatened by the state\u2019s push toward privatization. At Nashoba Public School, in a rural part of southeast Oklahoma where there\u2019s little else but timber and twisting roads, the roughly 50 kids who make up the elementary and middle grades are taught in split-grade classrooms. Like hundreds of other Oklahoma districts, more than three-quarters of which are rural, it\u2019s not just a school, it\u2019s the school; there are no private schools in Pushmataha County.<\/p>\n

When students enroll in charter schools, they often take funding with them while districts have to maintain operations as before.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,\u201d said Nashoba Superintendent Charles Caughern Jr. \u201cOur foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!\u201d<\/p>\n

Caughern fears students with disabilities will suffer as public schools are weakened. Private schools don\u2019t have to admit students with disabilities, and many won\u2019t, he said.<\/p>\n

Erika Wright, a parent who leads the Oklahoma Rural Schools Coalition, which advocates for public schools, said the state\u2019s deep-red politics might lead outsiders to think Oklahomans support state leaders pushing education far to the right. But that\u2019s not the case, Wright said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t understand what\u2019s happening,\u201d Wright said. \u201cThey just assume that public schools are always going to be there because they\u2019ve always been there in their lifetime. I think the average Oklahoman does not understand the gravity and complexity of what is taking place.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say there isn\u2019t resistance. A group of about 15 parents and public school advocates that Walters derided as the \u201cwoke peanut gallery\u201d goes to State Board of Education meetings \u2014 a visual reminder that people care about education policy and public schools. A suburban Oklahoma City district is devising plans to deliver all of the Bible lessons contained in the new social studies standards on the same day, giving parents an easy way to have their children opt out. Court challenges to some of the state\u2019s right-wing policies are pending.<\/p>\n

Some are hopeful that Oklahoma will recalibrate the more extreme policies that marked Walters\u2019 tenure. The State Board of Education last week decided not to revoke the licenses of two teachers who Walters wanted punished for their social media posts about Trump. The new superintendent said he would drop Walters\u2019 plan to distribute Bibles to every classroom.<\/p>\n

But many of the significant changes in classrooms came out of the Legislature, which has continued this year to propose bills to rid schools of \u201cinappropriate materials\u201d and proclaim that, in Oklahoma, \u201cChrist is King.\u201d A lot of damage already has been done to public schools, said Turner, the Battiest superintendent.<\/p>\n

He was only half-joking when he said some parents have been \u201cbrainwashed\u201d by right-wing TV news and Oklahoma leaders\u2019 talk of liberal indoctrination to think the district is teaching kids to be gay or converting Christian kids into atheists.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, one mom stopped him in the parking lot at school to say she was withdrawing her child from the district because its teaching didn\u2019t align with her values. The superintendent was floored.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the power of the rhetoric,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n

He said he used to sit a couple of pews behind that mom in church every Sunday.<\/p>\n

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