Oklahoma’s new “America First” teacher certification test will require educators from California and New York to agree with conservative curriculum.
Teachers from California and New York who want to work in Oklahoma public schools will be required to pass a certification test to prove they share the state’s conservative political values.
Regardless of the subject or grade they teach, they’ll have to show they know “the biological differences between females and males” and that they agree with the state’s American history standards, which includes elements of a conspiracy theory that the Democratic Party stole the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump, which fact checkers have said are false.
Maybe moving there for more affordable housing? People are unironically told to stop complaining about unaffordable housing and move to the Midwest.
Yes, the Midwest is cheaper than the coasts.
But there is a LOT of middle ground between “Expensive coastal state” and “state where escalators are a novelty and there are more cows than humans.”
The best school in the state of Illinois is in central Illinois near uiuc. Teachers are paid well and col is cheaper than most places. Plus there’s corn mazes.