Oklahoma is soliciting bids for Bible suppliers to provide their wares for the state’s education department – and the ...

to put a King James Version Bible in each Oklahoma classroom. “I was speechless, $6 million for Bibles,” said Elizabeth Ridgway. “We have kids who can't read, kids not ready for college ...

Math isn’t my long suit, but State Superintendent Ryan Walters' request for $3 million ($6 million over two years) to purchase a King James Version of the Bible for every classroom in Oklahoma ...

The latest controversies are Walters wanting a billion bucks to put Bibles in the classroom (beyond ridiculous) and keeping ...

And now he’s proposing to spend it not just on any old Bible, as the Oklahoman reports: Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles.

“Every teacher, every classroom in the state, will have a Bible in the classroom and will be teaching from the Bible in the classroom,” Walters said at the time of the announcement. Some ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In June, Oklahoma’s Trump-supporting top school official, Ryan Walters, ordered the ...

Board member Sarah Lepak brought several concerns about the policy to Walters, saying she has been asked about which ...

He has said that “every teacher, every classroom in the state will have a Bible in the classroom and will be teaching from ...

After over two hours of public comment, school board members voted 4–0 (with one abstention) to rescind the policy that ...

Superintendent Ryan Walters presented a plan to earmark $500,000 to train teachers who carry guns to school and add signage ...

Rep. Mark McBride (R-Moore) sent a letter to Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond last week for an opinion on whether ...