Oklahoma school chief touts 'America First' teacher test to prevent indoctrination in schools

Just the News ^ | August 29, 2025 10:34pm | Charlotte Hazard

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Oklahoma Education Superintendent Ryan Walters said that teachers coming from left-leaning states like California will have to take an "America First" test to combat leftist indoctrination.

"We don't let leftists from California under Gavin Newsom come in and indoctrinate kids in Oklahoma," Walters said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "That's what's controversial about it. It's amazing. It's common sense.

"When we saw Gavin Newsom require teachers in California to teach that there's 27 genders [and] to teach that there's no difference between males and females, [and] when we saw the anti-Americanism in the curriculum in New York, we said, 'we're not doing that in Oklahoma,'" he continued. 

In a previous interview, Walters said he worked with Prager University to develop the test. 

"We actually teach based on the facts"

"Prager did a great job of helping us develop a test, and, guess what, you're going to have to know what, what a female is, what a male is, the biological differences, because guess what?" he told a local news outlet. "We actually teach based on the facts, in our biology -- in our classes here in Oklahoma. We also teach real American history. We want our kids to be patriotic. We want our kids to love this country."

The test will also ensure that teachers are well-versed in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

There has been some pushback to this test, with an agency leader arguing that making teachers coming to Oklahoma from states like New York or California take a test is a violation of state law.

"Requiring an 'America First' assessment for teachers moving from progressive states like California and New York, as state Superintendent Ryan Walters pledged to do, would step outside the authority Oklahoma law grants to the state Department of...

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[Flaming Conservative]

Since teachers, in every State, have been thoroughly indoctrinated, I hope ALL Oklahoma teachers are monitored to make sure they know and follow the Superintendents policies.

[whitney69]

Using political affiliation by circumstance is not the right thing to do. If the teachers are hired by qualification then the system should wait until it is proven they are not staying within the curriculum required. That’s what the administrators are paid to do...so do it. If there is a problem, they must go through the actions to correct or try to change the requirement. The teachers personal beliefs have no bearing on their qualifications unless they vary from the curriculum the state requires. But that has to happen first.

wy69

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article E. Pluribus Unum.

The test will also ensure that teachers are well-versed in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

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It would be interesting to see this Oklahoma test. Respectfully to PDJT47 for example, he's needed new constitutional advisors at times imo.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It would be interesting to see this Oklahoma test. Respectfully to PDJT47 for example, he's needed new constitutional advisors at times imo.

I think he's just flooding the zone, forcing them to play wack-a-mole like they used lawfare to wack-a-mole him.

[FrankRizzo890]

And what’s to keep this teachers from cheating on the exams the same way that illegals cheat on the CDLs?