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Education chief vies to expand U.S. role as partner on local schools
- 05-04-2010
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By Sam Dillon and Tamar Lewin/New York Times
Education secretaries usually keep a low profile, in keeping with their agency’s backseat status to states and local districts, which control schools. Arne Duncan has been called the most assertive secretary of education ever, breaking sharply from the less-visible role of his predecessors. Mr. Duncan visited recently with Nakiyah Rowe, left, and Lois Appiah-Agyeman at their charter school in Brooklyn. But there was Secretary of Education Arne Duncan one recent day, racing through Washington traffic in a black Chevrolet Suburban, sirens wailing to clear traffic on his 13-block trip to the National Public Radio studios for an hourlong call-in show that he crammed into his hectic schedule. Mr. Duncan is a man in a hurry. (more...)
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