Stopping the Duncan agenda: The civil rights issue of our time.
One of the stock phrases that Arne Duncan uses in his speeches is the that “there is not a day that he doesn’t think about Martin Luther King.”
Duncan will say that his agenda of competitive school funding, school closings, charter schools, the undermining of teacher union contracts and the punitive use of standardized test results (it is becoming harder and harder to come up with a single term to describe his expansive plans for destroying public education) is the “civil rights movement of today”
According to the Civil Rights Movement and organizations of today, apparently not.
In fact, you could say that stopping the Duncan/Obama education agenda is the civil rights movement of today.