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Arne Duncan: I Support Gay Marriage

Kevin Spak — Mon, 07 May 2012 09:02:04 CDT

Joe Biden's not the only one in the Obama administration comfortable with same-sex marriage . On Morning Joe today, Mark Halperin asked Education Secretary Arne Duncan if he supported same-sex marriage, and Duncan didn't equivocate at all. "Yes, I do," he replied. Asked if he'd ever said that publicly before, he...

Black Students Face More Arrests Than Whites: US

Matt Cantor — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:40:05 CST

African-American students are arrested much more frequently than whites in America's large public schools, according to the government's largest-ever study of the subject. Among school systems with more than 50,000 students, 35% of arrests involved African-Americans, though they represent just 24% of the student body. White students represented 21%...

Obama: I Knew About Jeremy Lin Before You

Kevin Spak — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:02:39 CST

President Obama wants you to know that he had his eye on Jeremy Lin before it was cool. Obama sat down with Bill Simmons for a half-hour of sports talk on today's BS Report (audio here ), and the first question was how he felt about being America's second most...

No Child Left Behind Waiver Granted to 10 States

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:11:43 CST

Ten of the first 11 states to apply for a waiver from the controversial No Child Left Behind law will be freed from the law's requirements by President Obama today, the AP reports. Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Tennessee received the waivers; New Mexico's...

At Least 27 States Ditching No Child Left Behind

Kevin Spak — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:18:05 CDT

It’s been a week since Barack Obama offered to let states out of No Child Left Behind's strictest provisions , and states are jumping to take him up on it. At least 27 states have already told the administration they’re opting out, and most of the rest are still considering it,...

US Granting 'No Child Left Behind' Waivers

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:31:26 CDT

Arne Duncan promised to take action on No Child Left Behind if Congress didn't, and now he's making good on that promise. With efforts to reform the controversial 2002 education law stalled in Congress, the Obama administration will allow states to apply to be exempted from the law. More details...

Congress Must Change No Child Left Behind: Duncan

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:38:05 CDT

If Congress doesn’t do something about No Child Left Behind, then Arne Duncan will. The education secretary promised to take steps to ease some of the sanctions for states that are trying to improve schools, if Congress doesn’t act on rewriting the 2002 law by the beginning of next school...

Obama's Next Target: Education Reform

Polly Davis Doig — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:59:23 CST

Seemingly leaving no sweeping overhaul behind, even under the changed dynamics of the 112th Congress, the Obama administration is readying its next legislative push: education reform. An overhaul of No Child Left Behind has broad support on both sides of the aisle, reports the AP, but divisions begin to show...

'No Child Left Behind' Needs a Bipartisan Facelift

Matt Cantor — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:33:05 CST

The new Congress is set to update No Child Left Behind, and it’s a chance to get both sides of the aisle behind real change, writes Arne Duncan in the Washington Post . Both parties share similar concerns about NCLB—its way of labeling schools “failures,” its bubble tests, its flawed...