Arne Duncan: “Our policies should be about identifying where teachers need the most help and, for a change, giving them that help.”

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.

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…

The goal here is not to reopen schools, the goal is to stay open.

What the White House needs to do is invest in public education, at this time, a critical need.