Arne Duncan: “Our competitors in this global economy are not cutting. In fact, they're doing the opposite.”

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.

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…

I think we need to pay teachers significantly more.

To say you have to spend money in this way, that prices are fixed, just simply didn't make sense.