In Oklahoma, applicants for teacher jobs from California and New York will demand to pass an exam that the Republican official of the state provides for state education in order to protect themselves from the “radical left ideology”, but decipher the opponents as “Maga loyal test”.
Ryan Walters, Superintendent of Oklahoma, said on Monday that every teacher from the two blue states must consist of a conservative non -profit organization based on government certification, a conservative non -profit organization in Oklahoma.
“As long as I am a superintendent, the classrooms in Oklahoma are protected from the radical left ideology, which is promoted in places such as California and New York,” said Walters in an explanation.
Prague, compact for Prague University, emphasizes compact videos with a conservative perspective on politics and business. It promotes itself as “concentrates to change the spirit through the creative use of digital media.”
Quinton Hitchcock, a spokesman for the state education department, said that the Prague test for teacher applicants was completed and will “very soon” introduce.
The state did not allow the entire 50-level test to the Associated Press, but provided the first five questions, including the question of what the first three words of the US constitution are and why religious freedom for the identity of America is critical.
Prague did not immediately answer a phone message or an e -mail to get a comment. But Marissa Streit, CEO von Praguu, said CNN that several questions about the evaluation “undo the damage to the gender -specific ideology”.
Jonathan Zimmerman, who teaches history at the University of Pennsylvania, said Oklahoma’s contract with Prague, to test potential teachers outside the state, was “a water catchment area”.
“Instead of simply being a resource that you can optionally draw, Prague is institutionalized as part of the state system,” he said. “There is no other way to describe it.”
Zimmerman said that the American Historical Association carried out a survey by the 7th to 12th grade teachers last year and found that only a minority was based on textbooks for daily lessons. He said that the upward trend is that most of the history books are “fatally boring”. But he said, that means that history teachers leave online resources like Prague.
“I think what we are now seeing in Oklahoma is something else that Prague actually enables a kind of goalkeeper for future teachers,” said Zimmerman.
One of the largest teacher unions in the country, the American Federation of Teachers, often contradicted the administration of President Donald Trump and the procedure against the autonomy of teachers in the classroom.
“This Maga Loyalitätztest will be another junction for teachers in a state who has already struggled with a great deficiency,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten.
She criticized Walters, who urged that the state’s curriculum standards were revised about the 2020 presidential elections.
“It should be his priority to train the students, but instead Donald Trump and other Maga politicians make it to notice,” said Weingarten in a statement.
Tina Ellsworth, President of the non -profit national council for the social studies, also expressed concerns that the test would prevent the teachers from applying for jobs.
“The state education authorities should remain true to the values and principles of the US constitution,” said Ellsworth. “An ideology test to become a teacher in our great democracy is against these principles.”
The chairman of the State Rep. John Waldron, chairman of the Democratic Party in Oklahoma, rejected the test as a “political attitude”.
“If you want to see a textbook definition of indoctrination, how about a loyalty test for teachers,” said Waldron. “It is a sad echo of a paranoid past.”
Waldron, a native of New Jersey, said he had been in the target group for this type of test when he moved to Oklahoma in 1999 from Washington, DC to teach social studies.
“The teachers don’t rush from other countries to teach. We have an enormous lack of teachers and it is not as if we have a huge supply of teachers from blue states anyway,” he said.
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Hollingsworth reported on Mission, Kansas and Stengle from Dallas.
