Students at the storied Little Rock Central High School walked out of classes on Friday in protest of Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' LEARNS Act.
Students at Little Rock Central High School walk out of classes on March 3, 2023.Storied Little Rock Central High School, cited by Sarah Huckabee Sanders' campaign as formative in her rise to the Arkansas governor's mansion, was the site Friday of a student walkout to protest the cornerstone of her legislative agenda -- the LEARNS Act, aDuring the school's third period, at 1 p.m.
"I will never forget watching my dad, Gov. Mike Huckabee, and President Bill Clinton hold the doors open to the Little Rock nine -- doors that 40 years earlier had been closed to them because they were Black," Sanders said last month in the national spotlight. "Today, those children once barred from the schoolhouse are now heroes, memorialized in bronze at our state house.
It took 13 days from Sanders' State of the Union response for Republican lawmakers to release the full text of the 144-page bill and 10 days for it to clear both chambers of the statehouse. Three Republicans in the House and one in the Senate voted no. "Me and all of my peers and a lot of my teachers, I know lots of people who were pretty disappointed and honestly appalled by the fact that she had kind of invoked the significance of Central," said Ernest Quirk, a senior from Little Rock who helped write the letter. "The history of Central that she celebrates and touts as kind of part of her image, those are the kinds of things that would potentially be in danger with a lot this attack on what she calls indoctrination.
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