Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas took the oath of office Tuesday and issued a series of executive orders barring the teaching of critical race theory and imposing freezes on new government hiring and new state regulations.
At her inauguration in Little Rock, Mrs. Sanders pledged to make education reform a priority. Among her first actions was signing the order to ban what she called “the political indoctrination of Arkansas’ schoolchildren.”
“As long as I am governor, our schools will focus on the skills our children need to get ahead in the modern world – not brainwashing our children with a left-wing political agenda,” she said.