Arne Duncan: “Instead of penalizing schools that are identified as needing improvement, we should put a system in place that invests…”

President Trump has zero power here. Governors basically have zero power.

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.

To be very clear, where for-profits institutions are helping to prepare people for real jobs that have good wages and help move them up the economic ladder, we want to see them grow, we want to see them thrive, we want to see them prosper…

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…