Duncan: States Could Lose Out on Stimulus Cash
Washington
States will hurt their chance to compete for millions of federal stimulus dollars if they fail to embrace innovations like charter schools, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Thursday.
Duncan was responding to a question about Tennessee, where Democratic state lawmakers have blocked an effort to let more kids into charter schools.
"States like that would not be helping their chances, I can say that," Duncan told The Associated Press during a visit to a high school in the Washington...
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