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May 20, 2025

Oklahoma Adds False Conspiracy Theories About 2020 Election to High School Curriculum
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Education advocates are raising the alarm after Oklahoma approved a new
high school social studies curriculum which will encourage students to
identify "discrepancies" in the 2020 election, which Donald Trump lost
but has repeatedly falsely claimed he won. Oklahoma's school
superintendent is a Trump supporter who has tapped other far-right
ideologues to revise the state's curriculum, including Kevin Roberts,
president of the Heritage Foundation.

In other education news, thousands of school teachers protested in front
of Elon Musk's Space X facility in Hawthorne, California, on Saturday.
The teachers condemned DOGE's dismantling of the Education Department
and cuts to special education and student meal programs.


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