The chair of the Oklahoma Senate’s education committee says mandates for Oklahoma made by outgoing state school Superintendent Ryan Walters – such as those about teaching from the Bible , starting Turning Point USA chapters , paying for school lunches for all students and immediately ending high-stakes standardized testing – effectively will disappear once Walters leaves office.

State Sen. Adam Pugh, R-Edmond, said such mandates had no statutory authority anyway, so they wouldn’t be in effect even if Walters, his fellow Republican, remained as Oklahoma’s top education administrator.

During an appearance on Fox News last Wednesday, Sept. 24, Walters announced he would step away from his elected office to become the chief executive officer of the Teacher Freedom Alliance , a ne

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