By Jonathan Allen

(Reuters) -The Oklahoma Department of Education is rescinding a 2024 directive that required teachers to have the Christian Bible in every classroom and incorporate it into their lessons, which had been challenged as unconstitutional.

The directive was the brainchild of Ryan Walters, who resigned as the U.S. state’s superintendent of public instruction last month. The Oklahoma Supreme Court had halted the effort while teachers and parents from various religious backgrounds challenged it in a lawsuit against Walters that argued the Bible mandate violated the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on state sponsorship of religion.

The Oklahoma Constitution goes further, stipulating that public schools and spending must be nonsectarian, and not benefit “any sect, church, denomin

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