Arne Duncan: “This isn't about the federal government. This is about the federal government supporting the great work of local…”

They're trying to have it both ways. So they're bending to the pressure, the political pressure that they're feeling from him.

The absence of leadership at the federal level has had a devastating impact on kids' education in the spring, and now going into the fall and that hasn't changed.

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

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.