Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders wants to improve access to the state’s higher education institutions, overhaul the state’s higher education funding model, and authorize the firing of professors who waste time indoctrinating students, the governor told state lawmakers on Tuesday.
The Republican governor said she also aims during this year’s regular session to ban cellphones in the public schools from “bell to bell.”
Sanders emphasized that she seeks to end the state’s sales tax on groceries — which she described as “our most regressive tax” — and signaled she wants to use medical marijuana tax revenues to make the summer EBT program and the state’s free breakfast and lunch programs financially sustainable, and make breakfast free for any public school student who wants it.
