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This is Ryan Walters! Ryan Walters is REALLY fucking stupid! (And possibly insane)
PS: This is a developing and layered news story full of corruption so the thread will be filled out fully with more and more information as coverage on the investigation into his numerous crimes continues. This idiot definitely deserves a thread though as he's acting more and more unstable by the day it seems.
Socials
Link to his personal FB account that's full of people mocking him on his posts: https://www.facebook.com/RyanWalters4OK/
Archive: https://archive.ph/OTdbx
Early life & career.
Link to his personal FB account that's full of people mocking him on his posts: https://www.facebook.com/RyanWalters4OK/
Archive: https://archive.ph/OTdbx
Early life & career.
Born 5/23/85 in McAlester Oklahoma. His father was a bank executive while his mother worked at Eastern Oklahoma State College. They both attended Harding University and are members of the North Town Church of Christ, where his father serves as a minister and his mother serves as the elementary education director. He graduated from Harding University in 2010 before returning to teach at McAlester High School in 2012. In 2016, he was a McAlester Teacher of the Year and a finalist for State Teacher of the Year. He was also appointed to the Oklahoma Community Service Commission in 2018 by Governor Mary Fallin and Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability in 2019 by Governor Stitt. He resigned from McAlester Public Schools in 2019.
Corrupt from day 1.
On September 10, 2020, Governor Kevin Stitt nominated Walters to be Oklahoma Secretary of Education. He is the youngest education secretary in state history. (Way to live up to expectations champ)
On May 2, 2022, The Frontier and Oklahoma Watch reported on a United States Department of Education investigation that found the Bridge the Gap program Walters oversaw was implemented with few safeguards to prevent fraud or abuse and that federal auditors were investigating the distribution of COVID-19 relief money through the program. (Foreshadowing)
On May 11, Oklahoma House of Representatives Democrats called on Governor Stitt to call for Walters' resignation. The governor's office responded, "Secretary Walters is doing a great job fighting for parents' right to be in charge of their child's education and advocating for funding students, not government-controlled systems." ("Fighting for parent's rights to be in charge or their child's education" apparently means being completely corrupt and wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars)
Later in May, Oklahoma newspapers reported that while working as Secretary of Education, Walters remained the executive director of Every Kid Counts Oklahoma, an Oklahoma education-related nonprofit organization. Walters was paid approximately $120,000 a year by Every Kid Counts Oklahoma, compared to his state salary of $40,000. The Frontier and Oklahoma Watch reported that Every Kid Counts Oklahoma was funded by national school privatization advocates and charter school expansion advocates, such as the Walton Family Foundation and another group founded by Charles Koch. (Taking bribes to push agendas, So much integrity. So very Christian)
In August 2023, The Oklahoman reported that the state auditor, Cindy Byrd, found, through a state audit that included the Bridge the Gap program, that $1.7 million was spent on various non-educational items, such as kitchen appliances, power tools, furniture, and entertainment. Walters oversaw the Bridge the Gap program at the time of the misappropriation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the misspending of federal funds meant to help Oklahoma children learn at home during the pandemic as part of the $39.9 million Governor's Emergency Education Relief grant. (Blatant theft of tax payer dollars that you didn't even try to hide? Enjoy prison, retard.)
Walters was reappointed by Governor Stitt as Oklahoma Secretary of Education in 2023. On April 11, 2023, Stitt appointed Katherine Curry to replace Walters, whose reappointment stalled in the Oklahoma Senate after Attorney General Gentner Drummond stated it was illegal for him to hold both the Secretary of Education and State Superintendent positions. Curry resigned after only three months citing the "political environment." (The governor needs to be investigated too since the dumbass kept trying to protect a retard who got caught red handed being corrupt)
One shit show of a short career.
In April 2023, the Oklahoma Attorney General's office under Gentner Drummond issued an opinion stating that HB 1775 does not grant authority to the State Board of Education "to make administrative rules without proper direction from the state Legislature"; as a result, Walters's "rules regarding pornography in library books, sex education, parents' rights and inappropriate materials" were unenforceable. Drummond said that he was not "taking a stance" on Walters's rules. Ryan Kiesel said after asking Walters to show them the pornographic material Walters claims schools have, Walters emailed and had staff members hand-deliver copies of explicit materials to lawmakers' offices, though he never said from what schools the materials originated.
In September 2023, Walters announced that the state would cooperate with conservative media group PragerU to provide curriculum to Oklahoma schools, a policy similar to one recently adopted in Florida. Oklahoma Democrats criticized the curriculum as "whitewashing history". Walters was featured in a PragerU video on their website acknowledging the partnership. After the announcement, The Black Wall Street Times, a Tulsa-based African American newspaper, requested an interview with Walters, but was told by an Oklahoma Department of Education spokesperson that they were barred from interviews due to tweets by the paper's editor-in-chief. He also launched an investigation into Western Heights Public Schools for hiring a principal who is a drag performer in their free time.
In 2024, Walters attempted to reject the American Library Association's standards for information literacy. Walters had called the current standards "woke". The ALA, which works with the Oklahoma Library Association and the American Association of School Librarians, said it "remains focused on ensuring that our current information literacy standards meet academic rigor and that we continue to strive to make Oklahoma a top 10 state in literacy". He has also accused librarians of promoting pornography, but has not cited any instances of them having done so. (Reading is WOKE! Also librarians promote pornography now.)
In January 2024, Walters appointed far-right Libs of TikTok account owner Chaya Raichik to a statewide library advisory board, prompting bipartisan criticism. Walters's decision also resulted in protests from a number of parents, educators, and lawmakers who believed Raichik endangered students and teachers. (Appointing a god damn TIkTok account owner to a STATEWIDE LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD! This faggot legit tried his best to be just like trump lmao)
In November 2024, Walters announced that he had established a Department of Religious Freedom and Patriotism within the Oklahoma Department of Education, saying that it would "oversee the investigation of abuses to individual religious freedom or displays of patriotism." He mandated that all students watch a video of his announcement and that a copy be sent to their parents; however, Attorney General Drummond responded that Walters lacked that legal authority. (The beginning of Walter's utterly retarded war on a fictional liberal invasion of Oklahoma schools and his own downfall)
In 2025, after Governor Stitt opposed the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction's proposed mandate to request the citizenship status of children enrolling in public school, Walters responded that he is part of a so-called deep state conspiracy against Trump, of whom Walters is highly supportive. Stitt also fired three members of the Oklahoma State Department of Education over poor NAEP test scores and "needless political drama." (Undoubtedly the "needless drama" was people not kissing his ass)
Walters filed a amicus curiae in support of St. Isidore in the United States Supreme Court case Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond.
A NAEP study released during Walters's tenure in 2025 found Oklahoma ranked 47th in fourth-grade reading, 48th in eighth-grade reading, 44th in fourth-grade math, and 45th in eighth-grade math. (That places Oklahoma in 50th out of 50 states in overall education quality folks! What they expected to happen by hiring a right wing grifter who already got caught engaging in fraud is beyond me.)
In February 2025, Walters met with the Oklahoma Board of Education and promoted a new social studies syllabus—introduced hours prior—that instructed students to: "Identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results" by examining "the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities and in key battleground states, the security risks of mail-in balloting, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction of 'bellwether county' trends". The Board accepted the syllabus after Walters falsely told the Board that they needed to approve it that day, otherwise legislative deadlines would be missed. The syllabus was implemented in April 2025 after Oklahoma lawmakers declined to block it. The Associated Press reported that the syllabus content introduced by Walters effectively called for the "study of conspiracy theories related to the 2020 election" despite "no evidence of any discrepancies that could have changed the results" of the 2020 election. (Trying to turn school children into political weapons and tools to push his personal political agendas WHILE accusing liberals of pushing their agendas in schools located within a deeply red state with absolutely no proof. This man is as retarded as he is shamelessly hypocritical)
In June 2024, Walters issued a memo announcing that all public schools in Oklahoma would be required to teach the Christian Bible, including the Ten Commandments, mandating "that every teacher, every classroom in the state will have a Bible in the classroom and will be teaching from the Bible in the classroom." Walters' announcement followed the passage of a Louisiana law earlier in the month requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all Louisiana public school classrooms. Walters said that teachers who failed to comply with the mandate could lose their jobs. In his budget request for fiscal year 2026, Walters asked the Oklahoma Legislature to appropriate $3 million to purchase Christian Bibles for Oklahoma schools. On October 17, 2024, a group of Oklahomans filed suit in the Oklahoma Supreme Court against Walters and other defendants, in an effort to block the teaching mandate and the $3 million expenditure.
In September 2024, Walters opened bids to supply the Oklahoma Department of Education with 55,000 Christian Bibles. The bid documents required that "Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material." Only two versions fit all criteria: Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A. Bible" (endorsed by Donald Trump, who receives fees for copies sold), which sells for $60, and the "We The People Bible" (endorsed by Donald Trump Jr.), which sells for $90. Free or far cheaper versions of the Christian Bible are readily accessible. The company Mardel Christian & Education said that none of the 2,900 versions of the Christian Bible that it sells can meet Oklahoma's requirements. The King James Version (KJV) is favored by many conservative evangelicals, rejected by Catholics, not favored by most mainline Protestants, and, along with the entire New Testament, rejected by Jews. Multiple state legislators and a state school board member criticized Walters' proposal on legal and constitutional grounds. (People like this fucker are all utterly retarded and devoid of the ability to feel shame or comprehend irony I swear)
In July 2025, Walters announced an "anti-woke test" developed in partnership with PragerU that teachers moving to Oklahoma from blue states would be required to take in order to ensure they will not teach what he described as "leftist propaganda". (This motherfucker's entire career is literally nothing but lies propaganda projection and theft)
On August 13, 2024, state representative Mark McBride released a letter signed by several other Republican legislators calling for a special House investigation into Walters, the first step toward impeachment in Oklahoma. Walters described the move as "unprecedented" and accused the letter's signers of partnering with Democrats, attacking Christianity, and wanting pornography in schools. This was despite a vast majority of those who signed the letter being Christians. The issues addressed in the letter were failing to distribute school funds, disobeying state laws, and failure to respond to open records requests. Speaker McCall said he would not consider impeachment until 51 Republican members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives signed the letter. 26 Republican state representatives called for an investigative hearing. On August 16, Walters dared McCall to impeach him, and accused McCall of targeting him to improve his potential 2026 campaign for Governor. (When christian conservatives are calling for an investigation into a christian conservative you KNOW they're the lowest form of scum)
On August 18, 2025, Walters announced that teaching applicants from California and New York would be subject to 50-question ideology tests administered by PragerU, ostensibly to protect Oklahoma from "radical leftist ideology". PragerU's CEO told CNN that one topic on the exam would be "gender ideology". Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers teachers' union, described the exam as a "MAGA loyalty test" and said it would exacerbate Oklahoma's teacher shortage.
Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September 2025, Walters announced in a press release plans to install a chapter of Turning Point USA in every high school in the state of Oklahoma. (Fighting fictional liberal indoctrination with actual conservative indoctrination? Perfectly logical)
On September 23, 2025, it was reported that Walters had spent hundreds of thousands of state dollars meant for education on contracts with PR firms outside Oklahoma in order to promote his personal image. This was after Governor Stitt had placed a ban on such wasteful spending. An open records request revealed he had spent another $100,000 dollars 15 months after the governor's orders. These contracts resulted in Walters making over 400 appearances on national news shows. The day after the scandal was reported on, Walters announced he would resign from office. He officially resigned on September 30. (By "Officially resigned" he means "I quit before they threw me in prison for my multiple instances of high level fraud and theft")
On October 1st Independent conservative news/propaganda mill "American wire news" published an article featuring Walters where he claims he is going to "destroy the teacher's union" by trying to make a teacher's union that "isn't political" as a replacement for what he calls a "traditionally left wing union", despite him making literally everything political at every turn during his entire career and getting people fired because they weren't conservative trump cultists like him. (The retardation and hypocrisy literally never fucking ends with this asshole I swear)
That ends the face palm inducing story of Ryan Walters for now but the state of Oklahoma has launched a deep investigation into this dumb fuck and his multiple instances of fraud, theft, abuse of power, violation of civil rights and other crimes which may very well land him in prison for a few years. I will update the thread once that investigation has reached its conclusion or if this unstable dumbass does anything else stupid in the meantime.
Social media posts, archived articles and videos on Walters.
Comprehensive list of Walter's numerous controversies:
SouthernPovertyLawCenter article on Walter's horrible performance:
Archive of state gov post of Walter's decree that every highschool in Oklahoma will have a Turning Point USA club chapter:
Article in which education workers detail the insane lengths that Walters went through to attack the education system of Oklahoma for no reason other than pure derangement and hatred including constant threats of termination and forcing HR staff to dress as pink slips on "spirit day" and sending emails threatening termination if anyone talked to the press about his insane schoolyard bully behavior:
Article on Walters being sued by 2 (so far) of the over 130 people he fired during his short tyrannical reign who claim wrongful termination and violations of their first amendment rights. Because it totally was. Walters of course called people suing him for violating their civil rights and illegally firing them a "political stunt with no merit" even though his crimes, again, are all well documented:
The Oklahoma Ethics Commission is investigating Walters:
Walters tried to sue the department of homeland security claiming that Biden's border mismanagement somehow cost Oklahoma schools 474 million dollars. He was also ordered to pay lawyers for a news station that sued him for yet another first amendment violation $170.000. (BTW Oklahoma is around 685 miles away from the mexican border. The man is beyond retarded.)
The Oklahoma Supreme Court stepped in to stop this grifting parasite from spending millions of tax payer dollars on bibles while simultaneously funnelling a portion of said money directly to Donald Trump after a lawsuit was filed by 32 people including parents, civil rights advocates and even religious leaders.
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