Sarah Sanders and others are big mad about a woman defeating a woman in a women’s sporting event.
Breanne Davis
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LEARNS, lies and the Arkansas Legislature
Either they haven’t read the amendment, or they are deliberately trying to deceive the public. You decide.
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Arkansas’s new House speaker, other legislative leaders look ahead to 2025
Rep. Brian Evans (R-Cabot) became House Speaker Designate last week with an overwhelming 91 votes from the 100-member body. The speaker’s position must be affirmed by the House when the 95th General Assembly convenes in January.
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Lawmakers blame lack of state employee raises on … Asa Hutchinson?
The former governor left behind a shoddy employee evaluation system that forced Sanders to withhold raises to all but a quarter of the state executive agency payroll, lawmakers said Wednesday. But that makes no sense.
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Superintendent accused of wrongdoing by Arkansas LEARNS Senate sponsor responds
Star City Superintendent Jordan Frizzell called Sen. Breanne Davis’ allegation a “false public statement” and defended his decision to allow teachers to go to the Senate Education Committee hearing on school time.
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Despite their best efforts to bully and coerce, Jordan Frizzell of Star City Schools isn’t backing down
Jordan Frizzell, superintendent of Star City Schools, likes some parts of The LEARNS Act, other parts, not so much. He has been upfront about the pros and cons of LEARNS for a while now. I asked Frizzell how he feels about Gov. Sarah Sanders and Sen. Breanne Davis’ political effort to silence his public opposition. “It’s just unbelievable, really. It’s shocking to me they would reach this far,” he said.
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Universal school voucher bill steamrolls through Arkansas Senate at mach speed, knocking opponents flat
Even objections from Republican voucher supporters over the mach speed at which Arkansas LEARNS is hurtling through the Capitol weren’t enough to slow Gov. Sarah Sanders and company’s bully push for the massive bill they filed only days ago.
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Pro-voucher politicians attack public school educators for putting up a fight
To the educators with legitimate concerns about the negative effects parts of the Arkansas LEARNS bill will have on students and teachers, the people in charge say, “Shut up.”
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Arkansas LEARNS omnibus education and voucher bill zooms through committee despite questions, could become law within days
After a day of contentious testimony and acknowledgments that there are still issues and questions in the 144-page bill that need attention, members of the Senate Education Committee voted yes on moving Arkansas LEARNS out of committee and on to the full Senate, where it’s expected to be voted on Thursday.
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Conservative lawmakers plunge ahead with school bathroom bill targeting trans kids
Rep. Mary Bentley (R-Perryville) is a one-hit wonder with her fixation on transgender children that spans the years and the legislative sessions, but her fellow Arkansas lawmakers seem happy to stay stuck in the time warp with her. On Wednesday, Bentley sold her shoddy bathroom bill to the Senate Education Committee, moving it another step closer to becoming law and getting the state sued again for violating transgender children’s civil and constitutional rights.