KUAR | By Tess Vrbin / Arkansas Advocate

A proposed Arkansas law to require public schools to teach students about “the failures of communist and autocratic systems” of government will go to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ desk.

House Bill 1060 passed the Senate Tuesday, a week after passing the House, both with solely Republican support. Rep. R. Scott Richardson and Sen. Jim Dotson, both Bentonville Republicans, sponsored a similar bill in 2023 that passed the House, also with only Republican support, but it did not make it to the Senate floor.

HB 1060 would also require schools “to reinforce in required instruction the resiliency of the constitutional republic system adopted by the United States of America.”

Arkansas schools could be required to teach ‘the failures of communist and autocratic’ governments