Oklahoma will require applicants for teachers from California and New York to pass the exam, which, according to the Republican dominant state education officer, is designed to protect against “radical left -wing ideology”, but opponents hear as a “loyalty test”.
Ryan Walters, a superintendent of the Oklahoma state schools, said Monday that any teacher from two blue states will have to pass an evaluation test administered by the Oklahoma -based Conservative non -profit organizations before receiving a state certificate.
“As long as I am a superintendent, the oclahoma classes will be protected from the radical left -wing ideology in places such as California and New York,” Walters said in a statement.
Prager, a short at the University of Prater, provides short videos with a conservative perspective of politics and economics. It encourages itself as “the focus on changing the mind through the creative use of digital media”.
Quinton Hitchcock, a spokesman for the Department of State Education, said the lecturers’ graduation test was completed and would be “very quickly”.
The state has not published a total of 50 issues in the Associated Press, but has asked the first five questions, including the first three words of the US Constitution and why religious freedom is “important for American identity.”
Prater did not immediately respond to a phone message or email. Email address. However, Marissa Streit, CEO of Prager, CNN said several questions about the evaluation are related to the elimination of “gender ideology damage”.
Jonathan Zimmerman, who teaches the history of education at the University of Pennsylvania, said the Oklahoma contract with a prayer to try non -state teachers “is a pool moment”.
“Instead of a prater, just being a source you can draw electively, Prater has become institutionalized as part of the state system,” he said. “There is no other way to describe it.”
Zimmerman said the American Historical Association interviewed a survey of 7-12 grades 7-12 last year and found that only a minority was choosing textbooks for daily training daily. He said it is that most history books are “deadly boring.” However, he said it means that history teachers rely on online resources such as heard.
“I think what we see in Oklahoma now is something different, which actually enables hell as a kind of goalkeeper for future teachers,” Zimmerman said.
One of the country’s largest teachers ‘unions, the American Teachers’ Federation, often contradicted President Donald Trump’s administration and coping with teacher autonomy in the classroom.
“This Maga Loyalty Test will be another teachers who are already fighting a huge disadvantage,” said AFT president Randi Weingarten.
She critically appreciated Walters, who demanded that the state curriculum standards be viewed by involving conspiracy theories about 2020. Presidential election.
“His priority should be student education, but it forces Donald Trump and other magic politicians to notice him,” Weingarten said in a statement.
Non -profit National Social Studies Council President Tina Ellsworth also raised concerns that the test will prevent teachers from applying for work.
“State Education Councils should remain faithful to the values and principles of the US Constitution,” said Ellsworth. “The application of an ideology test to become a teacher in our great democracy, contradicts those principles.”
President of the Oklahoma Democratic Party Rep. John Waldron denied the test as “political holding”.
“If you want to see the definition of textbook indoctrination, as with a loyalty test for teachers,” Waldron said. “It’s a sad echo of a more paranoid past.”
New Jersey Native Waldron said he would have been in a targeted demographic test when he moved from Washington, DC to Oklahoma to teach social studies in 1999.
“Teachers are in no hurry to teach other countries. We have a huge shortage of teachers and it is not the case that we still have a huge supply of teachers that will still come from the Blue States,” he said.
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Holllingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas and Purele of Dallas.