Obama, Duncan Get to Work on Agenda
Newly Inaugurated President Vows to ‘Transform Our Schools’
As they settled into their new positions, President Barack Obama and newly minted Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sought to set a tone of bipartisan cooperation on the myriad of challenges facing the nation and its schools.
Despite the faltering U.S. economy and the prospect of drastic cutbacks in school budgets across the nation, the education community in Washington is optimistic about the years ahead, said Jack Jennings, the president of the Center for Education Policy, a research and advocacy organization in the nation’s capital.
“The mood is very positive that the administration will start addressing some very pressing problems,” said Mr. Jennings, who served as a top aide to Democrats on the House education committee...
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