Two former Oklahoma teachers are vying for the state’s top education job, albeit with very different campaign styles.
Republican Ryan Walters, 37, Gov. Kevin Stitt’s secretary of education, is a conservative firebrand who has mostly targeted what he says are liberal indoctrinators masquerading as teachers and pushed for the banning of certain books from school libraries.
“The radical left has decided that our schools need to be places of indoctrination,” he said during a recent debate.
Walters also has embraced Stitt’s education-voucher proposal that would allow public money to be spent on tuition at private schools, including religious schools.
