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 ...
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 ...