Like other Republican governors, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is making school choice a high-profile political issue, declaring education reform her 'top priority' and first big legislative play since taking office in January.
is making school choice a high-profile political issue, declaring education reform her "top priority" and first big legislative play since taking office in January.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, R-Ark., speaks while delivering the Republican response to President Biden's State of the Union address, Feb. 7, 2023, in Little Rock, Ark.Two Republican state lawmakers on Monday filed the text of a 144-page bill, Arkansas LEARNS, just before close of business. By Wednesday, it had passed out of a Senate Education Committee, despite public opposition and bipartisan support for amendments, and by Thursday, the full Senate.
"Arkansas, in passing this, would be the latest state to join the universal school choice revolution," said Corey DeAngelis, a prominent school choice advocate and senior fellow at the American Federation for Children. "The dominoes are falling and there's nothing the government school monopoly can do about it."
Homemade signs opposing school voucher policies were left in front of the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 20, 2023.Stacey McAdoo, the state's "Teacher of the Year" in 2019, questioned whether Arkansas teachers were involved in writing the legislation. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders answers reporters' questions at a news conference at the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 8, 2023, about an education reform bill she's proposing.Paulson, who did not vote for Sanders, was among a dozen protesters who gathered outside the governor's mansion in Little Rock on Sunday night -- anticipating the bill's release -- with signs reading "public $ for public schools" and "teacher over vouchers.
"Because if I'm in rural Arkansas, what other option do I have? What private choices do I have?" Morgan said.
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