The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned the use of literacy tests for voting, because the tests were being used as a tool of racial disenfranchisement. But New York is going a lot further than that — ...

State Superintendent Ryan Walters speaks at a rally May 21, 2025, in the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City. (Photo by Nuria Martinez-Keel/Oklahoma Voice) After weeks of hype, it turns out the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — State Superintendent Ryan Walters said educators from California and New York could be required to take an “America First” test if they want to teach in Oklahoma schools. Some ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KFOR) – Prager U published a link to a new ideological test that new teachers coming from New York and California might have to take to work in Oklahoma classrooms. They ...

Schools are required to test the progress of their English learners each year to determine whether they still need language instruction services or can exit out of such programs. In close to 40 states ...

Republican state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters says Oklahoma will roll out a new certification test "in two weeks or so" for teachers moving to Oklahoma from "left-wing" states. Walters gave the ...

Teachers from “liberal” states who have relocated to Oklahoma and are seeking to work there must take a controversial new assessment, given for the first time today, that “keeps away woke ...

Peter Wilds-Bethea never intended to become a teacher. He started going to school in his home town of Darlington, South Carolina, around the time of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Teachers from “liberal” states who have relocated to Oklahoma and are seeking to work there must take a controversial new assessment, to be given for the first time today, that “keeps away woke ...