Arkansas Education Department changes, removes social studies resources after Sanders’ executive orders

March 17, 2024 at 4:19 p.m.

by Josh Snyder

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs her first executive orders as governor at the state Capitol in this Jan. 10, 2023 file photo. Sanders had just been inaugurated earlier that day. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Thomas Metthe)
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs her first executive orders as governor at the state Capitol in this Jan. 10, 2023 file photo. Sanders had just been inaugurated earlier that day. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Thomas Metthe)


In the month after Sarah Huckabee Sanders was sworn in as governor, the Arkansas Department of Education began changing materials or, in many cases, removing them from its list of recommended social studies resources for teachers.

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