Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Barack - his Secretary of Education
A local pick (from Chicago, no less).
Here's a comment from a local blog...
Here's a comment from a local blog...
Publicola doesn't think much of it:
"President-elect Barack Obama continues to reach not across the aisle, or even across the country, but right across town for his cabinet selections. Yet another lackluster liberal Chicago pol — Chicago Schools Superintendent Arne Duncan – this week was named by Obama to his cabinet, as Secretary of Education.
Duncan’s biggest career accomplishments include: proposing the novel idea of an all-gay high school in Chicago, and offering to pay high school students to get good grades.
Let’s look at each of these astonishing educational policy ideas separately..."