A new Labor Beat video out in January 2012 adds to the growing list of videos that teachers, parents, students and supporters of real public schools can draw on to educate themselves, their colleagues, and their neighbors about the attacks on public education in Chicago (attacks which have been exported around the USA since Arne Duncan became U.S. Secretary of Education by appointment of the President in January 2009).

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Since he appointed Chicago's Arne Duncan to be U.S. Secretary of Education in January 2009, President Barack Obama has supported every attack on the nation's urban public schools and the Duncan Education Department's "Race to the Top" program, which is