Posted on 10/05/2015 3:16:03 PM PDT by george76
On Friday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced he would be stepping down after nearly seven years on the job. This makes it a good moment to assess Duncan’s legacy, especially since his tenure has been shrouded by more than its fair share of puffery and overheated PR. This was predictable when it came to the usual Obama cheerleaders (Tom Friedman wanted Duncan to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state). But it also showed up at times as generous, even fawning, laurels tossed by the likes of David Brooks, Jeb Bush, Newt Gingrich, and Lamar Alexander.
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Duncan — the former Chicago schools chief — approached the U.S. Department of Education as if it were the nation’s school board and he had been appointed the nation’s superintendent. He was dismissive of Congress, impatient with recalcitrant states, and contemptuous of those worried about federal authority run amok.
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Duncan simultaneously exploited and fractured the bipartisan goodwill that had greeted him in 2009, as he launched a war on for-profit colleges, manufactured hysteria over a supposed wave of campus rape, and pushed for a massive expansion of the federal role in everything from pre-K to school discipline
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pushed states to adopt the Common Core even before it had been committed to paper
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There was the denigration of Common Core opponents.
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There was Duncan’s war on the school-voucher program
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Liberals really can pick ‘em can’t they? Incompetence, thy name is democrat.
“Dismal record” pretty much describes any Democrat and all too many Republicans.
Wait to you see his replacement’s record in NY State .... a Cuomo reject (read into that what you will) BUT at least he meets Obama=’s Black Race Criteria and likes WashingUp in DC.
BTTT
Think of all the gender-confused and good little Muslim, America-hating children he’s helped move toward pussificated adults.
Arne Duncan and Bill Ayers were keynote speakers at a conference hosted by The Renaissance Group
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he is failed elsewhere” As superintendent of Chicago schools he was the overseer of one of the worst school systems in the US and for that Obama selected him to head up the US education machine. Can anyone find anywhere he has been a success?
A Sisyphean task ..... No, it doesn’t mean sissy like Obama.
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It’s failure by design.
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