After four years in office, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan still hasn’t won over local school board members.
But he keeps coming back, year after year, to tangle with members of the National School Boards Association during their federal meeting in Washington.
In remarks yesterday, he laid out the four tenets of his second-term agenda: more money to expand access to high-quality early education for disadvantaged children, reauthorizing No Child Left Behind (and following through on waivers), making good on President Obama’s goal to lead the world in college completion by 2020, and passing gun control legislation in the wake of the Newtown shootings.