Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters announced that he would step down from his role overseeing the state’s schools to lead the conservative group Teacher Freedom Alliance, saying, “We’re going to destroy the teachers unions.”
The announcement from Walters, a conservative Republican who pushed to incorporate teaching about the Bible into public school classrooms, caps off a contentious tenure marked by a willingness to embrace culture war issues.
“We have seen the teachers unions use money and power to corrupt our schools, to undermine our schools,” Walters said on the show “Fox News @ Night” on Wednesday. “We are one of the biggest grassroots organizations in the country. We will build an army of teachers to defeat the teachers union once and for all.”
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