Ryan Walters is resigning, ending his disastrous reign over Oklahoma's public schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The far-right superintendent of public schools will soon lead a right-wing group that fights teachers' unions This newsletter is free and goes out to over 22,000 subscribers, but it's only able to sustain itself due to the support I receive from a small percentage of regular readers.
51% : Nothing reveals your love for public education like the statement, "We're gonna destroy the teachers' unions."
49% : He has tried to purchase Trump Bibles for public schools, eventually settling for sending a few hundred to AP Government teachers who don't need them.
47% : They said he was withholding $150 million for security enhancements that had already been allocated to public schools, hiding information about how he spent taxpayer dollars for his office's travel budget, failing to fulfill open records requests in a timely manner, and refusing to spend money that he was legally obligated to spend on asthma inhalers for students.
38% : Harming public schools is the job Walters always wanted to do, and everyone's better off when he's not doing it from the inside.
35% : The whole charade was just a publicity stunt for the right-wing group PragerU. He sued an atheist group for warning public schools that they needed to follow the law and not allow staffers to push religion on kids.
34% : Ryan Walters, the Christian Nationalist Superintendent of Public Instruction who has used his position to push religious indoctrination in schools, will soon resign from his job to become CEO of the Teacher Freedom Alliance, a right-wing group that aims to destroy teachers' unions.
34% : Walters once compared teachers' unions to terrorist organizations.
30% : His only loyalty was to the national right-wing propaganda machine that rewards demagogues who spread division and undermine public institutions while spreading misinformation and constantly pretending to be a victim.
29% : And now he'll finally ditch this job he clearly doesn't care about in order to take one better suited to his hatred for the people who make public schools work.
28% : He also tried forcing teachers to make the Bible part of their curriculum, tried to put Christian chaplains in public schools, tried to mandate displays of the Ten Commandments in those schools, claimed the Tulsa Race Massacre had nothing to do with race, falsely insisted that President Joe Biden wanted "to destroy our Christian faith," formed a faith committee to examine prayer in public schools, appointed the troll who runs Libs of TikTok to a statewide library advisory board, and sent out a "sample prayer" for teachers to use for the people of Israel (and definitely not the innocent people living in Gaza).

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