Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters cannot mandate teachers to play a video of him praying for students, teachers, and President-elect Donald Trump, according to the office of state Attorney General Gentner Drummond.

Walters made a video announcing the creation of the Department of Religious Freedom and Patriotism, which will “oversee the investigation of abuses to individual religious freedom or displays of patriotism.”

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