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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appears surprised that Connecticut remains committed to the rule of law. - Wait, What?

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appears surprised that Connecticut remains committed to the rule of law. - Wait, What?:

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appears surprised that Connecticut remains committed to the rule of law.




 In a Huffington Post entitled, Arne Duncan Bemoans Philadelphia School Layoffs, Student Loan Rate Hike and written by Joy Resmovits, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has apparently joined Connecticut’s Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and ousted Bridgeport superintendent of schools, Paul Vallas, in calling Connecticut’s administrator and teacher certification law a bureaucratic technicality rather than a law.
The article explains that, “Duncan said he found ‘fascinating’ a Connecticut judge’s ruling that ousted Paul Vallas, the superintendent of schools in Bridgeport, Conn. Vallas, a former Philadelphia superintendent, was ordered to step down from his job because he