OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - The new Oklahoma State Department of Education is turning away from many of Ryan Walters' mandates, including the mandate that every class have a Bible and teachers teach from it.

"I am very pleased to see the superintendent abandon the anti-woke culture war. It didn't work for Ryan Walters, and it's not a good look going forward," said A.P. U.S. History teacher Aaron Baker.

Baker was one of many teachers who got the Trump Bible. That is the Lee Greenwood God Bless the USA Bible that costs over $60 per purchase.

When Walters was still superintendent, he used just under $25,000 to purchase around 532 of them. That was the legal amount he was allowed to use without getting permission from lawmakers.

Walters then tried getting $6 million approved in last year's budg

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