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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Duncan's Law

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Duncan's Law

Duncan's Law

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has announced that he will unilaterally override the centerpiece requirement of the No Child Left Behind school accountability law, that 100 percent of students be proficient in math and reading by 2014. -- NYT

All of Duncan's Race-To-The-Top stimulus money handouts, his speaking tours with Newt Gingrich, his embrace of T-Party govs like Chris Christie andMitch Daniels, none of that could buy him the credibility with Congress he needed for re-authorization of No Child Left Behind.

Duncan & Spellings
NCLB is a law that even he now calls a “slow-