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Chicago schools chief tapped for Cabinet
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | No comments posted.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama intends to name a big-city schools chief, Chicago’s Arne Duncan, to help fix the country’s ailing schools as education secretary, people familiar with the decision said.
Duncan has run the country’s third-biggest school district since 2001, pushing to boost teacher quality and to improve struggling schools and closing those that fail. Student test scores have risen significantly during Duncan’s tenure.
One of the schools Duncan turned around — Dodge Renaissance Academy, which he shut and then reopened on Chicago’s West Side — was chosen as the backdrop for Obama’s announcement today. Obama and Duncan visited the school together in 2005.
Duncan has run the country’s third-biggest school district since 2001, pushing to boost teacher quality and to improve struggling schools and closing those that fail. Student test scores have risen significantly during Duncan’s tenure.
One of the schools Duncan turned around — Dodge Renaissance Academy, which he shut and then reopened on Chicago’s West Side — was chosen as the backdrop for Obama’s announcement today. Obama and Duncan visited the school together in 2005.
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