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Local School Board Members Play Hardball With Duncan - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Local School Board Members Play Hardball With Duncan - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Local School Board Members Play Hardball With Duncan

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For U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, local school board members can be a really tough crowd.

Last year, the National School Boards Association members gave Duncan grief after he he tangled with them over his support of mayoral control.

Not dissuaded, Duncan came back today to address the same crowd, whose members have come to grips with the new federal education reality. And many of them don't really like it. (They didn't really like their reality under former EdSec Margaret Spellings either.)

In his speech, Duncan had nothing really new to say, choosing instead to