Jerry Mintz Questions Arne Duncan (Video)
April 21, 2011 at 9:05 am | Posted in AERO | 1 CommentTags: AERO, Arne Duncan, Jerry Mintz
Jerry Mintz
This is a video that was taken when I confronted Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan at the Education Writers Conference about the damage No Child Left Behind has done to public alternative schools and asked him if they could at least give a waiver to public alternatives.
Just before this video starts I had reminded him that two years ago I asked him, at the Education Writers Association conference, if he would end No Child Left behind, because alternative educators felt it interfered with real innovation. Since he hadn’t ended it, I asked if some schools could request a waiver.
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I just tweeted this. Thanks so much for posting this Isaac. I hear Arne saying lots of gobbledeegook and then saying, we’ve got to fix the law. Yeah, we agree. Anyone else hear the same thing.
Not a straightforward response. Do you think Arne’s ever been to Urban Academy in NYC, one of the best schools in the country that has, by special waiver, opted out of the Regents?
Kirsten
Comment by Kirsten Olson— April 21, 2011 #