Oklahoma's top education official orders Bible instruction in public schools

Oklahoma's top education official has sparked controversy by mandating that public schools incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for grades 5 through 12, angering civil rights groups.In a memo issued Thursday, Republican State Superintendent Ryan Walters directed school leaders statewide to include the Bible in their curriculums, calling it essential to Western civilization.

Louisiana now requires schools to display the Ten Commandments, and other states are pushing for Bible instruction and limiting lessons on race and gender.Earlier this week, the Oklahoma Supreme Court blocked an attempt to establish the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school."There have been instances where efforts to remove religion from the public sphere have gone too far," Richard Garnett, a law professor at Notre Dame, told the Associated Press.

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