Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former White House press secretary, visited the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda on Wednesday, where she discussed her ongoing progress to reform Arkansas’s education system.

Sanders, during a nearly hour-long conversation at the presidential library on Sept. 3, said she believes education holds the key to changing the trajectory of her state, which ranks in the bottom half nationwide in terms of high school graduation rates as well as reading and math scores for K-12 education, according to the U.S. News and World Report.

“Everything else hinges on whether or not we give our kids a good foundation, and frankly, we were doing a terrible job,” Sanders, a Republican, said. “Not just in my state, but across the country, we have had

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