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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Gene Lyons

Sarah Huckabee Sanders wants to send Arkansas schools back to 1956

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is shown outside the White House on April 2, 2019. Sanders. now governor of Arkansas, wants education “reforms’ that would set back schools to 1956, Gene Lyons writes. (Getty)

Sometimes pictures do tell the story. When Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders staged a photo op for the signing of her vaunted LEARNS Act, an education “reform” shoved through a rubber-stamp legislature with virtually no debate, she chose a private school in North Little Rock. Not a single Black face was in evidence. Most prominent were a half-dozen handsomely dressed little white boys wearing neckties.

The staging was clearly no accident, and the message was obvious.

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