Aunt Lydia Seeks To Double Spending On Vouchers

The Associated Press reports:

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday proposed a nearly $6.5 billion budget for the coming year that directs half of new spending toward a school voucher program.

The Republican governor called for increasing the state’s budget by nearly 3%, or $182.5 million, in the fiscal year that begins July 1. Sanders detailed the budget plan to lawmakers ahead of next year’s legislative session, which begins Jan. 13.

Sanders’ proposal calls for increasing funding for the state’s education freedom accounts, created under an education overhaul signed into law last year, by $90 million to $187 million.

Read the full article. Arkansas currently ranks 47th in education. Meanwhile her father, Mike Huckabee, has helped write the curriculum for bible lessons in Texas public schools, which gets its

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