Standardized tests are removed by the red state after changes in the Ministry of Trump Education

First on Fox: The Oklahoma State Education Department (OSDE) eliminates the State’s standardized end -of -year tests for several subjects in the context of an effort aimed at making “local control to school districts”.

Osde said the changes will take effect during the 2025-2026 school year and will have an impact on mathematics and English courses from the third to the eight year. Instead of standardized tests, Oklahoma will allow districts to use approved reference assessments which are already used to report on academic success and student growth.

He declared that the change will reduce the overall load of tests on students and teachers, as well as teachers to focus on class education rather than the preparation of tests. OSDE noted that reference assessments will continue to comply with federal and state protections for disabled students.

The bone also “explores” future options to eliminate standardized tests for science and history in the same notes.

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Oklahoma’s public education superintendent Ryan Walters, a republican, told Fox News Digital: “President Trump returns power to the United States so that we can return power to the families of Oklahoma who work hard.” (Gracieuse of Ryan Walters and John Paraskevas / Newsday RM via Getty Images)

This follows President Donald Trump considerably reducing the scope of the Federal Department of Education as part of an effort to possibly eliminate it. After taking the hike against the Ministry of Education during the 2024 campaign to be filled with “radicals, fanatics and Marxists”, Trump signed a decree in March, ordering that the ministry will be dismantled and that his functions “have returned to the United States”.

The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, declared during a rally of republican governors and democrats that the return of education to the States “is really a non -partisan problem” and “simply means restoring them the role which is now provided by the federal government, and they are worried about it”.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, OSDE explained its decision to eliminate standardized tests, appealing to “a decision to make the performance power of liberal teachers’ unions and cancel a burden that has been granted to students and teachers”.

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The Department said that he had questioned Oklahoma parents about the issue and found that 86% of the 15,349 respondents expressed that standardized tests were not necessary to assess students’ learning.

“For too long, teacher unions have used standardized tests to maintain states in accordance with their awakened standards,” said the ministry.

Oklahoma’s public education superintendent Ryan Walters, a republican, told Fox News Digital: “President Trump returns power to the United States so that we can return power to the families of Oklahoma who work hard.”

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The superintendent of the public education of Oklahoma Ryan Walters hopes that high quality education is no longer “driven by bureaucrats or external groups”. (AP photo / Sue Ogrocki)

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“The teacher-teacher approach fails our children,” said Walters. “By moving away from obsolete state tests and empowering local districts, we reduce the burden of students, parents and teachers while ensuring high quality education which is no longer motivated by bureaucrats or external groups.”

Fox News Digital contacted Oklahoma Education Association, professional educators from Oklahoma and the American teachers’ federation – Oklahoma to comment.