Arne Duncan: “We must put aside our ideological differences and focus on programs and ideas that work.”

I wanted to be held accountable for results, but I wanted the flexibility to spend that money as I saw fit.

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.

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…

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.