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The new head of the Oklahoma State Department of Education has announced that a controversial mandate requiring Bibles in public school classrooms has been dropped.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Lindel Fields, who was appointed to the position after his predecessor, Ryan Walters, resigned, announced Wednesday that he was ending the mandate.
Fields explained in a statement quoted by NPR's Oklahoma City affiliate KOSU that he wasn't going to continue fighting a lawsuit against the mandate, and that he has “no plans to distribute Bibles or a biblical character education curriculum in classrooms.”
“If resources are left to be allocated, the timing is fortunate since the team and I are currently reviewing the budget,” stated Fields, with KOSU noting that the Bibles in classrooms mandate would cost an estimated $3 million to be implemented.
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Lindel Fields, who was appointed to the position after his predecessor, Ryan Walters, resigned, announced Wednesday that he was ending the mandate.
Fields explained in a statement quoted by NPR's Oklahoma City affiliate KOSU that he wasn't going to continue fighting a lawsuit against the mandate, and that he has “no plans to distribute Bibles or a biblical character education curriculum in classrooms.”
“If resources are left to be allocated, the timing is fortunate since the team and I are currently reviewing the budget,” stated Fields, with KOSU noting that the Bibles in classrooms mandate would cost an estimated $3 million to be implemented.
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Oklahoma drops Bibles in public school classrooms mandate
The new head of the Oklahoma State Department of Education has announced that a controversial mandate requiring Bibles in public school classrooms has been dropped
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