Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: An end to hand-wringing on violence. Stop school closings!

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: An end to hand-wringing on violence. Stop school closings!:

An end to hand-wringing on violence. Stop school closings!

by Mike Klonsky

"It is staggering. This continues to haunt me." -- Arne Duncan

Michell McNeil's EdWeek piece, "Chicago Years Inform Ed. Secretary's Views on Gun Violence", portrays Ed Sec. Arne Duncan as a man deeply and personally affected by the Newtown shootings as well as by the epidemic of gun violence sweeping his hometown of Chicago. And knowing Arne, I'm sure he is.

As schools chief in Chicago from 2001 to 2008, he was affected by the gun deaths of a 10-year-