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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will be in Milwaukee tomorrow and Friday. It’s part of a three-day bus tour to promote educational opportunities in the Rust Belt manufacturing region. Tomorrow, Duncan and Jose Rico from the White House Initiative on Hispanic Education will hear suggestions from parents and others on how to improve training for Latinos. Also tomorrow, top federal education assistant Brenda Dann-Messier will meet with business leaders, teachers, and students at Milwaukee Area Technical College in Oak Creek. Dann-Messier will also appear at Milwaukee’s HIRE Center to discuss the need to hire older adults and dislocated workers. On Friday, Duncan will make an appearance at the Milwaukee School of Career-and-Technical Education. It’s a technology, math, and engineering school that received a federal improvement grant last year. State public school superintendent Tony Evers will join Duncan at that event, along with U.S. senators Herb Kohl and Ron Johnson and Milwaukee city-and-school leaders. Secretary Duncan is kicking off his bus tour in Pittsburgh today. He has meetings with teachers’ unions, faith leaders, and others along the way. Duncan is also scheduled to make stops in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan before coming to Wisconsin.
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