PHOTO: President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan arrive in Madison, WI

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U..S. President Barack Obama stands next to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan as they step off Air Force One in Madison, Wisconsin November 4, 2009. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES POLITICS)

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1. I have a question: Why did George Bush choose a total moron for his Sec of Education?

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2. Because learning proper Spellings is an important part of education

I swear as soon as W heard her name he thought she would be perfect as SoE.

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5. You've got a good point. Olive Oyl -- Secretary of Energy

Shrub was disappointed that she was just a cartoon

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6. Forest Whitaker - Secretary of the Interior

See how easy it is?


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8. Lloyd Bridges, Secretary of Transportation

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9. Tom Green - EPA Administrator

:-)

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18. Judge Reinhold, Supreme Court Justice.

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24. Frank Rich, Secretary of the Treasury

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25. Jude Law, Attorney General

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27. Hannah Montana - Secretary of State

(I know she isn't real)

:-)

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29. Sargent Shriver - Secretary of Veteran Affairs

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30. David Corn, Secretary of Agriculture

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31. Dick Armey - Secretary of Defense

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32. Naomi Watts, Secretary of Energy

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33. George Foreman, Secretary of Labor

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34. Trader Joe, Secretary of Commerce

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35. Gary Hart, Surgeon General

Trader Joe. Geez.

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36. Tim Gunn, Secretary of Homeland Security

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38. Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe - Office of Legal Counsel

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39. Axl Rose, White House Groundskeeper

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41. !!

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17. New Secretary of Housing & Urban Development!

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15. Because she was from Texas.

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37. Because she could answer "Is our children learning" without laughing

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3. To establish more high school JROTC programs?

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4. Obama uses stimulus money to coax states to embrace his school agenda........

Forum Name Latest Breaking News
Topic subject Obama Coaxes States to Change With School Dollars
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4131605#4131605
4131605, Obama Coaxes States to Change With School Dollars
Posted by joeycola on Wed Nov-04-09 04:03 AM

Source: abc


new. Arne Duncan has hordes of millions to privatize schools and he is on a roll.


Obama Coaxes States to Change With School Dollars

Obama uses stimulus money to coax states to embrace his school agenda



Using stimulus dollars as bait, President Barack Obama is coaxing states to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they compete for $5 billion in school reform grants, the most money a president has ever had for overhauling schools. And it may end up going to only a few states.

In Wisconsin, where Obama will visit Wednesday, lawmakers are poised to change a law to boost their state's chances. Nine other states have taken similar steps.

And states can't even apply for the money yet.

"There is an appetite out there for change," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in an interview with The Associated Press.

"There's been really dramatic movement in a number of states," said Duncan, who will travel to Madison, Wis., with the president. "This was the goal, but we didn't know if anyone was going to respond."

Respond they have.................................

No president has ever had that much money for schools at his discretion. Only Duncan — not Congress — has control over who gets it. And only some states, perhaps 10 to 20, will actually get the money.

Obama will use the trip to Wisconsin to call attention to the actions states are taking, one year after his election, to put his vision of reform in place, Melody Barnes, Obama's domestic policy director, told reporters Wednesday on a conference call.

Obama sees the test score data and charter schools, which are publicly funded but independent of local school boards, as solutions to the problems that plague public education.

The national teachers' unions disagree.......

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/WireStory?id=8987541&page=2


Something is very very wrong with this picture.

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7. Something is very very

wrong with the so-called writing of that article.

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10. Another corporatewhore article propagated

on DU to further your agenda.

Fuck abc.

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11. Try this one...Americans United

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/5158

[Cha]

12. Quick! Go find some more corporatewhore articles

to whine over.

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13. Killing the messenger is so Rovian.

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14. Constantly bashing Dems. is so Rovian.

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21. Only when I disagree with issues. Its called critique.

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23. Which is constantly-like Rove.

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22. delete.

nevermind.

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16. at least it's about policy issues

Obama is in a SCHOOL with his EDUCATION SECRETARY. Joeycola posted about Obama's EDUCATION POLICY.

I have nothing against picture threads, but words are nice once in a while.

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19. They are at an elementary school only 2.5 miles from where I work.

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20. Arne Duncan is a right winger when comes to privatizing schools

and adding more test.

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40. Yes

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26. Mother of God Arne Duncan is like Frankenstein.

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28. Love me some DCRA