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Education chief calls Hillsborough schools a model

Education chief calls Hillsborough schools a model

Education chief calls Hillsborough schools a model

Staff photo by KATY KUEHNER
 Arne Duncan listens to Hillsborough teacher Amanda Newman during a round-table discussion.
Arne Duncan listens to Hillsborough teacher Amanda Newman during a round-table discussion.
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Published: October 15, 2010

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TAMPA The education community is a lot like a family, Arne Duncan said.

The adults fight and the children lose.

"We have to professionalize education,'' said Duncan, the nation's education secretary, during a roundtable discussion Thursday at Tampa's Rampello Downtown Partnership School. "Hillsborough already is at the forefront of that