KEY POINTS
- State Superintendent Ryan Walters says the test will stop 'liberal indoctrination' from states like California and New York.
- Critics, including teachers' unions, call the move political grandstanding that won't address Oklahoma's teacher shortage.
Oklahoma is taking its culture-war battles into the classroom, with plans to screen incoming teachers from left-leaning states through what officials are calling an 'America First' test. The initiative, championed by Republican state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters, has sparked a storm of criticism from education unions, civil liberties advocates and academics who argue it politicises the hiring of educators.
