Oklahoma will teach high -school lies about 2020

Facts test: What is true about the 2020 elections, the voting count, the election college

What is Oklahomas's new social studies standard?

Oklahoma's new history standards will begin in the school year 2025-2026.

The pupils must be able to “identify discrepancies in the results of 2020 by looking at diagrams and other information, including the sudden increase in ballot covers in selected cities in key states in the battlefield, the security risks of mail-in voting, sudden batch-dump, an unforeseen recording of voters and the prospects 'Bellwether County' the new standard readings.

The teachers have to adapt their current curriculum to teach the lessons.

Why is it so controversial?

Former Democratic President Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election with 306 votes and 7 million votes in the referendum.

The right myth that the 2020 presidential elections were stolen by Trump, sometimes referred to as “big lie”, emerged from Trump's efforts to overthrow his defeat.

The allegations were told by numerous audits and told in several countries, court desires of lawsuits by Trump and his followers, forensic audits of voting rights and partisan exams.

“The election on November 3 was the safest in American history,” said cyber security and the infrastructure security authority in a declaration in November 2020. “There is no evidence that a voice system deleted or lost votes was changed or compromised in any way.”

Some Republican legislators have also pushed back the claims due to widespread fraud.

“Nothing in front of us turns out to be near the massive scope of illegality, the massive scale that would have granted the entire elections,” said Senator Mitch McConnell from Kentucky, the then GOP chairman in the Senate.

Facts test: How do we know that the election results in 2020 were legitimate and were not “manipulated”, as Donald Trump claims

On January 6, 2021, Trump's false claims of a stolen election stimulated the violent uprising of his supporters in the US Capitol.

Trump continued to make false statements about the 2020 elections during the entire term of bidges, such as: In the second debate of 2024, Trump mistakenly claimed that none of the more than 60 cases he lost to court in the 2020 elections was decided. In fact, 30.

The allegations of election fraud have become very widespread by Republican voters, although they are rejected by many Republican legal experts and GOP-proclaimed judges.

About a third of the Americans still believed that the election was stolen by Trump in September 2023, and a majority of the believers are Republican. This emerges from a survey of around 2,500 adults from the non -profit, non -participating public religious research institute.

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What do people say about it?

The new standards for Oklahoma's social studies are welcomed by Sarah Parshall Perry, Vice President and legal employee in the conservative non -profit organization that defends education.

She said the step was “the power of a state to change his training through the curriculum” and applauded Walters for “leadership”.

“I am very impressed by the fact that this is specially made to create critical thinkers,” said Parshall Perry in a Fox News interview. “And do we no longer need it in American education?”

But not everyone in the GOP is on board. Mike Hunter, a former Attorney General of Oklahoma Republican, submitted a lawsuit for the move on behalf of five family members of students and two teachers of the public school teachers against the Oklahoma State Department of Education and Walters.

They argue that the Ministry of Education of Walters does not follow properly in the implementation of the new standards and ask a judge to consider the new curriculum for social studies as “invalid, zero and void”.

In the lawsuit it is claimed that the new curriculum harms the students directly “because the new standards” do not match best practices and current understanding of national organizations and experts in this area “.

The revised standards also create “a significant burden” to the teachers.

The state Democrats previously asked the legislators to reject the proposed new curriculum.

“At the moment, the state superintendent does not focus on improving the educational results or increasing the financing of our public schools. Instead, he focuses exclusively on increasing his own political agenda for partisans with these standards for social sciences,” said Cyndi Munson, a democratic house reduction leader in Oklahoma at a press conference.

Training in Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a majority of the Republican and conservative state with 51.7% as Republicans and 28.4% of voters who were registered as Democrats in January 2024. Trump received support of around 66% of Oklahoma voters in Oklahoma in the 2024 presidential election.

The Republicans of Oklahoma make up an overwhelming majority of the state of the state and the House of Representatives.

The Republican governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, appointed Walters at the top of the state education department in September 2020. Oklahoma's voters then elected him in November 2022 for a second term.

Walters had previously taught for eight years as a history teacher in McAlester, Oklahoma, and was Chief Executive Officer of the non -profit public charity of every child who counts Oklahoma, which leads the educational programs.

Since Walters, he has taken conservative values ​​in Oklahoma's public schools.

Many guidelines that he promoted and supported have inflamed controversies throughout the state and in the nation.

The state's Ministry of Education is said to prescribe Bible lessons in its public schools in autumn.

A proposal to allow a religious Charter School in Oklahoma, which according to opponents violate the principle of separating the church and the state, has reached the Supreme Court of the United States. Walters supported the idea of ​​religious charter schools.

This year, Walters also tried to prove families there that US citizenship or legal immigration status for public schools is enrolled, and he plans to strictly enforce the Trump government's guideline in order to abolish diversity, justice and inclusion in schools.

Contribution: Daniel Funke, USA Today

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