Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed another executive order Thursday addressing the academic and financial planning processes.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed another executive order Thursday that focuses on the academic and financial planning processes.
“Arkansas’s existing academic and financial planning processes create significant administrative burdens for local school districts, encourage inefficient spending, exacerbate bureaucratic waste and detract school officials from more critical education priorities,” Sanders said in a press release.
Currently, the academic and financial planning processes operate independently. Sanders wants to develop a more unified and streamlined system for local school districts to apply for federal and state funding.
“Consolidating these processes into a single, comprehensive application and planning framework will ultimately lead to higher student achievement,” Sanders said. “Intelligent planning can help identify specific state laws, regulations, bureaucratic rules and red tape that needlessly complicate school district operations and hurt students.”
Today, I signed …