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Police: Chicago schools president commits suicide
Nov 16th, 2009 - Boston
CHICAGO—Chicago's school board president apparently shot himself in the head near the Chicago River before dawn Monday, officials said as his death was met with disbelief by civic leaders and U.S...
Obama uses school dollars to prod states to change
Nov 11th, 2009 - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – States are jockeying for a new $5 billion pot of education money even before the contest has begun. The Obama administration was opening the competition...
Stimulus to Reward States That Overhaul School Systems
Nov 11th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- A handful of states stand to win significant federal funding to revamp schools and impose strict testing standards under an Obama administration effort to alter educational practices across the country.
School stimulus cash comes with some limits
Nov 8th, 2009 - USA Today
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is ready to hand out more stimulus dollars for schools, but this time, strings are attached. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said another $11.5 billion is available to states...
Give Obama A+ for school reform ideas
Nov 6th, 2009 - CNN
Editor's note: Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a member of the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board, a nationally syndicated columnist and a regular contributor to CNN.com...

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Meet Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan talks about the source of his passion for education reform -- and why he thinks it's about more than education, it's about social justice. B&W photos by Sandra Steinbrecher (This video is public domain)
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Duncan: Opposition of Obama School Speech "Silly Stuff"
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appears on "Face the Nation" to address criticism from the right regarding President Obama's in-school speech to schoolchildren. "All the drama, all the hoopla, at the end of the day, if the President motivates ...
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Charlie Rose - Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan, United States Secretary of Education
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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan AEW
To celebrate Education Support Professionals Day, US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and NEA President Dennis Van Roekel rolled up their sleeves and donned chef's hats to serve lunch to hundreds of students at Alexandria's John Adams Elementary School ...

Arne Duncan from WikiPedia:

Arne Duncan (born November 6, 1964) is an American education administrator and currently United States Secretary of Education. Duncan had previously served as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools.

Duncan was raised in Hyde Park, Chicago, where his father Starkey Duncan was a psychology professor at the University of Chicago, and his mother Susan Morton runs the Sue Duncan Children's Center, an after school program serving African-American youth on Chicago's South Side. Duncan spent a great deal of his free time at his mother's center tutoring other students. Some of his childhood friends were John W. Rogers, Jr., CEO of Ariel Capital Management (now Ariel Investments) and founder of the Ariel Community Academy, Illinois State Senator Kwame Raoul, actor Michael Clarke Duncan, singer R. Kelly, IBM Fellow Kerrie Holley and martial artist Michelle Gordon. Duncan's spoken accent at this time led at least one college basketball coach to assume that he was of African-American descent.