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Ryan Walters: “We have school choice. We have merit pay.”

Featuring: Ryan Walters, Republican | Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction

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Oklahoma's top educator requires schools to play video of him praying for Trump

Published | Video Starts at 09:26

What do you say to that? We are in the middle of a turnaround here because we are following President Trump's agenda. This is the agenda for the entire country. We have school choice. We have merit pay. We are rejecting this left wing ideology in the classroom. We are promoting American exceptionalism. Look, we are pressing students forward to see academic outcomes improve. We've seen record improvement. (09:26–09:29)

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