The Oklahoma Supreme Court is giving new state schools Superintendent Lindel Fields two weeks to decide if he wants to withdraw his predecessor’s June 2024 mandate concerning teaching the Bible in classrooms and halt the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s attempt to buy Bibles for those classrooms .

In an order issued Tuesday, Oct. 14, and signed by Chief Justice Dustin Rowe, the court noted the “significant turnover among the public officers” named as defendants in the lawsuit filed Oct. 17, 2024, over the so-called “Bible mandate” issued by former Superintendent Ryan Walters.

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