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Sarah Huckabee Sanders

RepublicanSarah Huckabee Sanders

Governor · Arkansas

RepublicanState

Governor of Arkansas. Source: https://ballotpedia.org/Sarah_Huckabee_Sanders

14 tracked promises, 8 rated

Arkansas

Arkansas

Represents Arkansas statewide

91/100
Trust rating
Strongly keeps promises
91
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+82) to 0–100, aggregated from 8 rated promises. Never an opaque single score.
How this is calculated →

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+82 · based on 8 rated promises

  • Championed 6
  • Fully Kept 2

Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.

Integrity over time

In office since Jan 2023 · 8 rated promises

The line steps at each recorded assessment and holds between them; it ends on the current published score.

−100 worked against0+100 kept
Integrity Score by assessment date. Score ranges from −100 (worked against) to +100 (kept).
DateIntegrity Score
Jul 202675
Jul 202675
Jul 202682
Jul 202681
Jul 202680
Jul 202683
Jul 202682
Jul 202682
now82 (current, held from last rating)

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

8 tracked
  • Kept8
  • Against0
  • No opportunity0
  • In progress0
02468Jul 2026Jul 2026Jul 2026

Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.

Not yet scoredNot yet rated 6— tracked, but not counted toward Integrity

Topic coverage

14 promises across 9 topics

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Education4
  • Taxes3
  • Education & Child Health1
  • Education & Food Assistance1
  • Government Reform1
  • Immigration & Public Safety1
  • Public Safety & Criminal Justice1
  • Technology & Child Safety1
  • Tourism & Economy1
Kept Worked against No opportunity / not yet scored

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)14100%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
21
36
45
52

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

14 tracked promises

Championedhigh confidence

Vowed to make education reform the hallmark of her administration, which became the LEARNS Act (Act 237 of 2023).

EducationSpecific · measurablePromised Jan 2023
SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archivedEncyclopedia of ArkansasABC News
Championedhigh confidence

Pledged to keep cutting Arkansas's state income tax until it is eliminated entirely, saying she would keep cutting it "no matter how long it takes."

TaxesSpecific · measurablePromised Jan 2023
SourcesTax FoundationArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archivedFox NewsArkansas House of Representatives
Fully Kepthigh confidence

Promised to sign executive orders on her first day, including an immediate freeze on new government hiring and new government regulations, and an order barring "political indoctrination" in schools.

Government ReformSpecific · measurablePromised Jan 2023
SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archivedUALR Public Radio (NPR affiliate)Office of the Governor of Arkansas· archived
Championedhigh confidence

Pledged to empower parents with more school choices (later the Education Freedom Account voucher program under LEARNS) so no child is trapped in a failing school.

EducationSpecific · measurablePromised Jan 2023
SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archivedEncyclopedia of Arkansas (Central Arkansas Library System)ABC News
Championedhigh confidence

Promised to reward teachers with higher pay; the LEARNS Act raised the starting teacher salary to $50,000 and gave every teacher at least a $2,000 raise.

EducationSpecific · measurablePromised Jan 2023
SourcesEncyclopedia of ArkansasArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archivedOffice of the Governor of Arkansas· archived
Fully Kepthigh confidence

Committed to work with lawmakers to pass a state income tax cut in her first year (2023).

TaxesSpecific · measurablePromised Jan 2023
SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archivedKY3 (Associated Press wire)Arkansas Policy Foundation
Championedhigh confidence

Committed to improve literacy for Arkansas's youngest students.

EducationPromised Jan 2023
SourcesArkansas AdvocateArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archivedEncyclopedia of ArkansasOffice of Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
Championedhigh confidence

Committed to leverage Arkansas's natural beauty to promote tourism, an effort that became the Natural State Initiative.

Tourism & EconomyPromised Jan 2023
SourcesOffice of the Governor of Arkansas· archivedArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Pledged to expand the state prison system by building a new 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County.

Public Safety & Criminal JusticeSpecific · measurablePromised Jan 2025
SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Announced the Grocery Tax Relief Act to end Arkansas's state sales tax on groceries.

TaxesPromised Mar 2025
SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Committed to ban smartphones in every Arkansas public school, bell to bell (the Bell to Bell, No Cell Act).

Education & Child HealthPromised Jan 2025
SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Committed to update the Social Media Safety Act (to survive court challenge) and give parents the right to sue Big Tech companies under state law.

Technology & Child SafetyPromised Jan 2025
SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Pledged to pass the Defense Against Criminal Illegals Act to strengthen enforcement against criminal illegal immigrants.

Immigration & Public SafetyPromised Jan 2025
SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
Not yet rated

Committed to make school breakfast completely free for Arkansas students.

Education & Food AssistancePromised Jan 2025
SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived

Positions on record

9 positions on record

The record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.

  • Education & Child HealthStated position

    Committed to ban smartphones in every Arkansas public school, bell to bell (the Bell to Bell, No Cell Act).

    SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Public Safety & Criminal JusticeStated position

    Pledged to expand the state prison system by building a new 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County.

    SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Technology & Child SafetyStated position

    Committed to update the Social Media Safety Act (to survive court challenge) and give parents the right to sue Big Tech companies under state law.

    SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Education & Food AssistanceStated position

    Committed to make school breakfast completely free for Arkansas students.

    SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Immigration & Public SafetyStated position

    Pledged to pass the Defense Against Criminal Illegals Act to strengthen enforcement against criminal illegal immigrants.

    SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Government ReformStated position

    Promised to sign executive orders on her first day, including an immediate freeze on new government hiring and new government regulations, and an order barring "political indoctrination" in schools.

    SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • EducationStated position

    Vowed to make education reform the hallmark of her administration, which became the LEARNS Act (Act 237 of 2023).

    SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • TaxesStated position

    Pledged to keep cutting Arkansas's state income tax until it is eliminated entirely, saying she would keep cutting it "no matter how long it takes."

    SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Tourism & EconomyStated position

    Committed to leverage Arkansas's natural beauty to promote tourism, an effort that became the Natural State Initiative.

    SourcesArkansas Governor's Office (governor.arkansas.gov)· archived
    View position & sources
Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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