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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Announces Teacher Bonuses As Arkansas Education Rank Sparks Debate

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders launched a new initiative to reward teachers in her state, declaring that merit bonuses of $10,000...

The governor’s team perhaps banked on the financial incentives to overcome the bad buzz Arkansas has enjoyed for quite some time, as well as the national shortage in teachers, but the uproar online seems to suggest that convincing top educators to come down here will take more than just a few bonus checks. This has now grown to become even broader in scope beyond the state’s frontiers due to one commentator claiming that “the West education system, at least in engineering, is almost dead,” maintaining that the East is now producing better technical talent because of its teaching methods. As the dust settles on this latest education skirmish, two things remain clear: First, that the subject of teacher pay and retention have become red-state governance hot points; second, that any policy announcement coming from Sanders-a very polarizing figure as both Trump’s former press secretary and now a governor-will ignite very strong reactions from all sides.

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