This may be a lost cause for now..the next administration needs to identify the
mistakes of Duncan and move away from these policies.

It's that simple.

and then continue the school corporatization

In order for them to lie they would have to first be opposed to these policies and my fear is that
just who is it that is even going to go there at all.

I am asking because I don't know..has Warren or Sanders said anything against these
policies?

The entire Duncan enterprise freaks me out.

during the campaign. A lot like 2008

themselves from these policies, correct? Or are you suggesting something else I am
over looking?

I am questioning if any candidate will do that at on any level. If they claim to be
pro-public school they would need to state how they differ from Duncan.

I will say that my first reaction mirrored that already stated in your snip, if not so gracefully stated:

"We? Who the FUCK is 'We'? Does he have a cockroach in his pocket? Oh, wait...he IS the cockroach."

or does he just believe that we are?

I've looked at this guy's bio - dad was a psychologist and he attended The Lab Schools in Chicago (private) and Harvard. Privileged kid who played basketball. He didn't even major in education yet landed himself a spot on Obama's cabinet. Someone has convinced him that privatizing education is the way to go.

The only good thing I've found to say about him is that he and his wife do actually have their children in public school in Northern Virginia (Fairfax County schools are excellent) as opposed to most politicians.

Democratic this fall. I personally don't think the president gives a damn

I am certain these views are the president's too.

I posted this here in Socialist Progressives, where many of us simply look at the candidates and choose who we think will do the least amount of harm to working folks. People like Arne Duncan do not help the Democrats make a strong case. And I'll go further and assert that the Democratic Party should think long and hard about pushing policies that will decimate unions.

is the same as it's always been. They CLAIM to be a political party for everybody, the worker and the owner. But ultimately, you've got to choose because class struggle IS, at it's base, a zero-sum game. During occasional periods when the worker actually does do good, the owners do a WHOLE lot better. And when the inevitable crash comes all the gains workers make during those "good times" are taken away.

During capitalist economic downturns, class struggle becomes more pronounced and people (and parties) actually have to choose a side. And the Dems inevitably choose the owners.

A REAL worker's party is needed, not some wishy-washy fake that will betray the workers for the owners when times are hard. Up to now, that hasn't been the Dems.

Yup. And Arne Duncan made that choice before he even started ...

teaching basic living skills is the Number 1 priority.

Their success would be measured by a whole other criteria.

Perhaps Duncan is referring to the many children the schools identify as 'special ed' because a) the school is starving for the Federal funds paid per student and b) teachers find ways to classify behavioral problems in kids as 'special ed' to alleviate some of their ever-increasing classroom management difficulties.

Duncan is dancing as fast as he can with some other agenda, not Federal educational reform.

the man doesn't even have a degree in elementary ed. I'd even take educational policy. Or human development. Anything even remotely related ...

But, no, we have a sociology major who played professional basketball heading up this critically important cabinet position.

I spent all week in the company of teachers from all over CA. A more heroic bunch of people you will never meet. I don't know how sped and elementary teachers survive the crap they put up with.

Duncan applauded the stripping of teacher tenure from CA teachers. He can GFHS, as far as I am concerned.

definetly its needed for new generation to move ahead with new educational system.