Arne Duncan: “It is an issue of fairness. Thousands of young people have worked hard, but they are being denied the chance to build a…”

This is not left versus right, R versus D. This is a threat to dismantle public education and higher education in our country. And we should all be very, very scared of what could happen here.

The bad news is that we still have unacceptable opportunity gaps in America.

We are very intentionally targeting in these competitions those areas of the greatest need, not of the greatest grant writers, not of the greatest wealth.

Had we done what we needed to do in March, in April, in May and June, we wouldn't be talking about can we open schools? This was a natural disaster. It became a man-made catastrophe.