( CNN ) Some lawmakers in Oklahoma want to make Advanced Placement U.S. History history . What 's their beef ? The course , which was redesigned by the College Board and implemented in high school classrooms last year , is n't quite pro-America enough . `` In essence , we have a new emphasis on what is bad about America , '' said state representative Dan Fisher , the measure 's chief sponsor . `` ( The new framework ) trades an emphasis on America 's founding principles of Constitutional government in favor of robust analyses of gender and racial oppression and class ethnicity and the lives of marginalized people , where the emphasis on instruction is of America as a nation of oppressors and exploiters , '' Fisher lamented at a legislative committee hearing Tuesday . Not only does HB 1380 -- which sailed through a committee hearing this week -- bar state funds from being used on AP History , the legislation specifies what should be taught in the classroom by specifically identifying dozens of `` documents , writings , speeches , proclamations and recordings related to the history , heritage and foundation of the United States '' in the 10-page bill . What did Fisher single out ? Old standards such as The Gettysburg Address , Madison 's Federalist No . 10 and `` Common Sense '' by Thomas Paine . The bill does n't totally avoid what Fisher called America 's `` blemishes '' : He included Martin Luther King 's `` Letter from Birmingham Jail '' essay and `` I Have a Dream '' speech , as well as the `` Ballot or the Bullet '' speech made by Malcolm X as part of the replacement curriculum . Fisher , a Republican , also singled out three speeches made by Ronald Reagan and one by George W. Bush as important enough to U.S. history to be added to the new curriculum , but none from from Barack Obama , Bill Clinton , or Jimmy Carter -- the last three Democratic presidents .
Bill to eliminate AP History in Oklahoma , replacing it with new classes . Sponsor : ` ` emphasis on instruction is of America as a nation of slaves and exploiters ''