US EditionTrump Administration Seeks to Throw Out Lawsuit Filed by Ryan Walters
- In February 2025, Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters led approval of a new social studies curriculum including 2020 election denial content for all public schools.
- Walters added the election-related lessons quietly and allegedly did not inform several Board of Education members before their 5-1 vote to approve the nearly 400-page standards.
- The curriculum requires students to analyze supposed 'discrepancies in 2020 election results,' including mail-in ballot security and late ballot dumps, alongside Bible stories reflecting Christian nationalism.
- A parental lawsuit filed in Oklahoma County Court challenges the board's process and curriculum validity, while local group WOKE circulates opt-out letters citing state parental rights laws passed in 2024.
- The lawsuit awaits a court ruling, and the curriculum has sparked polarized reactions, with some parents opposing religious and election conspiracy content and lawmakers supporting parental opt-out rights.
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Oklahoma school chief misled board to put election denial into lessons: lawsuit
A new lawsuit filed by Oklahoma parents alleges that the controversial pro-MAGA state superintendent misled the state Board of Education to get them to sign off on a curriculum that puts 2020 election denial into official school lesson plans, The Washington Post reported on Thursday evening.The new ...
Are Oklahoma schools including misinformation about the 2020 election in new standards?
Yes. Starting next school year, Oklahoma high school U.S. history standards revised by Superintendent Ryan Walters will include conspiracy theories regarding the 2020 election. As a part of the objective of “Analyzing significant events during the first Donald J. Trump Administration,” students will “Identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information, including the sudden halting of ballot-counting in sel…
UPDATE: Oklahoma parents fight back
Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters installed a new social studies curriculum that will require all of the state's public school students to be taught conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the tenets of Christian nationalism. Walters said the new curriculum will allow "students to think for themselves" and "not be spoon-fed left-wing propaganda."Now, a group of Oklahoma parents is fighting back.A group call…
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