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Monday, February 27, 2012

The Education Secretary and a criminal conspiracy. Duncan should be fired. « Fred Klonsky

The Education Secretary and a criminal conspiracy. Duncan should be fired. « Fred Klonsky:

The Education Secretary and a criminal conspiracy. Duncan should be fired.

I admit that I thought the appointment of Arne Duncan to the post of Education Secretary by President Obama was a terrible idea.

I also admit that I have signed every petition to have him fired.

I think Duncan’s policies while head of schools in Chicago were bad for students.

He hasn’t gotten better at the Department of Education.

But Michael Winerip of the New York Times (a reporter who has nothing to do with the Times decision to publish