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Duncan’s Dilemma « Parents Across America

Duncan’s Dilemma « Parents Across America

Duncan’s Dilemma

This perceptive piece is reprinted with permission from the American Enterprise blog. Members of Parents Across America agree that Duncan’s policies are arbitrary, overreach his authority, and conflict with public opinion about how our schools should be improved.

By Whitney Downs

In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, education writer Stephanie Banchero highlighted the increasing impatience among state leaders over Congress’s inability to “fix” No Child Left Behind. Reauthorization of the law, which