In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Walters, the elected head of Oklahoma schools, said the Biden administration has attempted to leverage its power to force his state and others to conform to its progressive policy goals.First elected to his position last year, Walters, a former history teacher, has made waves as he has pushed education policy in Oklahoma in a decidedly conservative direction.
The superintendent explained that education departments at the state level often feel like they are at the mercy of the department, which provides funds through grants but then will use letters to pressure states to enact certain programs such as diversity, equity, and inclusion. "This doesn't make any sense to us," Walters said."Instead of us focusing on math, we've got to focus on how our math programs meet these levers of diversity, equity, inclusion. It's absurd."
"The way that they view an education system is that we want to create our own cultural revolution inside our schools," Walters said."They've done it with the media, they have done it with pop culture at large, and they've been pushing it in education."