Arne Duncan: “We have to be focused. We can't be all things to all people.”

The best way we can get kids back into a physical school is to beat down this virus in our local communities.

Let me be really clear: what many states on a voluntary basis have done, including your state, is raise standards.

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.

You and I know that by virtually every measure, sadly, Mississippi ranks near the bottom nationally--you know, 48th, 49th, 50th on many, many measures, and I just do not think that is fair to your children or to your State or to your…