Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan (born November 6, 1964) is an American education administrator and currently United States Secretary of Education. Duncan previously ... More »
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There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can’t come back this fall.” — Education Secretary Arne Duncan, CBS’s “ Face the Nation ,” Feb. 24, 2013 “Yes, there’s a district where it’s happened. But, again, it’s just because they have an ... Read more »
Duncan: Options possible for funding pre-K plan
ATLANTA (AP) — The Obama administration is open to considering more than one option to pay for a national expansion of early learning programs and will work with Congress and states to find the money necessary, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Friday. Duncan was in ... Read more »
School Closures Violate Civil Rights, Protestors Tell Arne Duncan
School Closures Violate Civil Rights, Protestors Tell Arne Duncan WASHINGTON -- The standards-based education reform movement calls school change "the civil rights issue of our time. " But about 220 mostly African American community organizers, parents and students from 21 cities from ... Read more »
Duncan to speak at Baltimore County school
TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Education Secretary Arne Duncan will visit a Baltimore County high school next month to discuss gun control. County Superintendent Dallas Dance announced Duncan's planned visit on Tuesday. Duncan will speak at Loch Raven High School in Towson on April 10. ... Read more »
DREAM Act stalemate top first term ‘disappointment,’ Duncan says – CNN Political Ticker
Washington (CNN) - Heading into a second term at the helm of the education department, Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday that the largest missed opportunity of President Barack Obama's first term was the lack of movement on an immigration reform measure. "I think there's a moment of ... Read more »
Ed Secretary Takes Firsthand Look At DISD Reform
Arne Duncan, Dallas Independent School District, DISD, Education, education reform, grants, Pinkston High, Public Schools, Race to the Top, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, United States Secretary of Education DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - The Dallas Independent School District ... Read more »
Madness you say? U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants highly paid college basketball coaches t...
Duncan: ‘If universities and colleges want to readjust a coach's priorities, they need to change the penalties and incentives they offer coaches.’ Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says college coaches whose players don’t graduate should be hit with financial penalties. With ... Read more »
Jason Stanford: The Cheating Will Continue Until Morale Improves
The only solution is one that Education Secretary Arne Duncan has so far refused -- removing the high stakes attached to standardized testing. The latest embarrassment is in Columbus, where this month Ohio State Auditor Dave Yost seized records at 20 high schools. This is part of a ... Read more »
The real impact of automatic cuts and why they may happen after all
In education, those cuts could mean $725 million less for a program that allocates funding to districts and schools with high percentages of lower income students, Education Secretary Arne Duncan told lawmakers on Thursday. It also could mean cutting funding to 70,000 low-income children ... Read more »
Thousands march against gun violence in Washington
Speakers - including Education Secretary Arne Duncan, lawmakers and actors - urged the protesters carrying such signs as "What Would Jesus Pack? " to lobby Congress and state legislators to back gun control measures. Duncan, who said one student had died from guns every two weeks ... Read more »
Sec'y of Ed. says states can shield teachers from new evaluation for a full year
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s announcement came after heavy lobbying — from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten — to delay plans by New York and other states to hold teachers accountable to higher standards known as Common Core. In a recent speech in the ... Read more »
CNN Washington AM Note – CNN Political Ticker
... too rare, the president continued, and he blamed Republicans for being “more interested in winning the next election than helping the next generation.” Arne Duncan woke at 5:30 a.m. in his Arlington County home, was driven to the airport and folded his 6-foot-5 frame into an aisle seat in coach... Read more »
Education Department Gives 3 More States Waivers : NPR
WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced on Monday that three more states would join the ranks of those given permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law in favor of their own school improvement plans. The addition of Alaska, Hawaii and West ... Read more »
U.S. Sec. of Education to Visit Burlingame
Take our survey: OK | Sorry, maybe next time Arne Duncan is advocating for education reforms sought by the Obama Administration. Duncan will stop by a preschool in San Francisco today to learn about the city's Preschool for All initiative. The visit will take place at 2 p.m. at ... Read more »
Commission: Pre-K for poor students within decade
Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Tuesday released his Equality and Excellence Commission's report, which is not binding but includes input from his top aides and the White House's chief education policy adviser. In the report, the commissioners documented the inequalities of the ... Read more »
Education secretary defends No Child Left Behind waivers
"Providing waivers was always, always our Plan B," Education Secretary Arne Duncan told senators. "That's our fault. That's on us," says Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee Washington (CNN) -- Republicans and Democrats in the Senate agreed Thursday that they would prefer a new education ... Read more »
NAACP seeks to mount shakeup in US education
The current education system is leaving out hundreds of children of all races, said Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who gave his support to the NAACP agenda. Twenty-five percent of all children, about 1 million children, drop out of school each year, Duncan said. In the African ... Read more »
House panel starts rewrite of No Child Left Behind
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans moved forward Wednesday with a rewrite of GOP President George W. Bush's prized No Child Left Behind Act, pushing a bill that would strip Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his successors of power and give more authority to the states. Members of the ... Read more »
Does Class Size Count?
Diverse figures including Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York and Bill Gates have coalesced around a new idea: why not increase class sizes for the best teachers and use the resulting budgetary savings to pay these best teachers more and to help ... Read more »
Highlights From Obama's Budget Proposal
Under the pre-K proposal, Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, told reporters on Wednesday, the federal government would initially support 90 percent of the cost of the programs for 4 year-olds, leaving 10 percent of the cost to states. Over time, the state contribution would rise to ... Read more »
