A new directive from Oklahoma's top education official requires all public schools to teach the Bible and the 10 Commandments starting in the fall.

Stephanie Sigh has the details.

Um, now just weeks after Louisiana law mandated the display of the 10

Commandments and classrooms, Oklahoma is now requiring the Bible's inclusion in lesson plans, not only in studying history

or comparative religions, but, quote, ensuring our students grasp the core values and historical

context of our country.

For more, we're joined by the author of this new directive,

Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Education, Ryan Walters.

Superintendent Walters, welcome to the news hour.

Let's start right in with this new directive.

Your memorandum says, quote,

effective immediately, all Oklahoma schools are required to incorporate the Bible, which includes

the Ten Commandments as an instructional support.

It also says immediate and strict compliance is expected.

Sir, what does compliance mean?

Because that's wide open for interpretation.

It could mean referencing how Shakespeare employs scripture in his plays,

or it could mean memorizing Bible verses which is it and

our teachers going to be able to decide for themselves.

Well thanks for the question there you know we've issued this guidance and we are issuing additional guidance to classroom on specificity in the upcoming week.

So we have standards that are in place to talk about that our teachers are to teach the role religion played in the classroom.

We have since saying that they are not doing that.

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