Oklahoma to test teachers from New York, California
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Teachers from “liberal” states who have relocated to Oklahoma and are seeking to work there must take a controversial new assessment developed by conservative media company PragerU.
For now, Pennsylvanians looking to land a teaching job in Oklahoma won’t have to take a test designed to weed out “woke indoctrinators” seeking classroom work in the conservative Sooner State. Oklahoma will soon begin administering what Ryan Walters,
Oklahoma's new "America First" teacher certification test will require educators from California and New York to agree with conservative curriculum.
Waldron, a New Jersey native, said he would have been in the target demographic for this kind of test when he moved from Washington, D.C., to Oklahoma to teach social studies in 1999. He said it would have struck him as an indication that the state “wasn’t serious about attracting quality teachers.”
Oklahoma will require teachers from California and New York to pass a PragerU-administered exam aimed at preventing “radical leftist ideology” in classrooms. The test has drawn criticism from teachers’ unions and politicians,
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters' office says it plans to reveal questions from the America First Assessment test that applicants from California and New York will be required to take.