Arne Duncan: “I share your concern about where the Federal Government has been inflexible or commandeered local budgets.”

The goal is not to reopen schools, the goal is to keep schools open. Do it slowly, gradually, thoughtfully, carefully.

You can lie to parents about a lot of things, but if you start taking away opportunities from their children, you better watch out.

Trump has broken that department. He's broken FSA, he's broken the Department of Education. And if something goes wrong, I desperately hope it doesn't happen. But if something goes wrong this fall with young people going back to college…

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.