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Straddling the Democratic divide: will reforms follow Obama's spending on education?(feature)
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's Senate confirmation hearing in January was thick with encomiums. He was praised by Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa for the "fresh thinking" he brought to his post as Chicago schools chief for seven years. Republican Lamar Alexander, education secretary under George H. W. Bush, told Duncan he was the best of President Barack Obama's cabinet appointments. Ailing Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy, in written comments entered into the record, praised Duncan for having "championed pragmatic solutions to persistent problems" and for lasting longer in Chicago than most urban superintendents.
The warm greetings given by both Republicans ...
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