Tag Archives: Arne Duncan
Confirmation Hearings
Secretary of Education-designate Arne Duncan began confirmation hearings today with a stop at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Duncan is expected to have any easy ride to confirmation but the Senators spoke up about the importance of addressing high school graduation rates and failing schools. In general No Child Left Behind didn’t [...]
Setting the Stage
Happy New Year! As we move into 2009 and Congress and our President-elect get ready to get to work education remains a front-burner issue. Mark G. Yudof, President of the University of California system encourages those in his state and around the country to think about the economic benefits of investing in education as the [...]
About Arne Duncan
President-elect Barack Obama has named his Secretary of Education, current Chicago superintendent of schools Arne Duncan. So – who is this guy? What does his appointment mean in terms of Obama’s priorities and direction on education policy? Duncan is generally considered a consensus-builder, who can bring groups that don’t always agree (teacher’s unions, school boards, [...]
Duncan says bold plans will get stimulus funding