Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters plans on implementing a test for prospective teachers in the state’s schools who are transferring in from blue states. The test, created in partnership with nonprofit group PragerU, will assess teachers’ knowledge of basic biology and American history in hopes of filtering out any teachers who would have attempted to indoctrinate Oklahoma students with woke ideology.

Walters claims that the test is reactionary against the woke standards Oklahoma discovered in Democrat states. “We’ve seen… what some states are doing in education,” he explained. “California and New York… continue to adopt standards and requirement son their teachers that run antithetical to our standards.”

First Liberty reports that children in California are unable to opt out of gender ideology studies, and New York schools have implemented such lessons in grades as early as preschool.  

It is Walters’ hope to avoid teachers from such districts coming into Oklahoma and teaching the same lessons.

“If you’re coming from these states, you will take a test from the state department to show that you’ve aligned to our standards,” he dictated. 

Topics off-limits according to Oklahoma educational standards are the existence of more than two genders, anti-American rhetoric, and antisemitic hatred. If liberal states insist upon teaching progressivism, Walters wants out-of-state teachers to clearly understand that Oklahoma’s standards are different.

“We have a current practice that says we will reciprocate with other states based on your certificate,” he points out, “Well now we have states giving out certificates that say you’re going to teach that there are 27 different genders… that’s a problem.”

The test is being developed with help from PragerU and will test the new hires’ knowledge of the Constitution, differences between men and women, and include other “straight forward” questions.

Though Walter’s authority to make such a decision has come under fire by critics, in an interview with Fox News, the superintendent said the “America First” test will be rolled out next week, even encouraging other states to follow Oklahoma’s lead.