President Elect Obama named his pick for education secretary yesterday, Arne Duncan.
Mr. Duncan ran the Chicago public school system.   I hope he can do for America what he did for Illinois and Chicago.” Only 17% of eighth graders can read at that level in Chicago schools overseen by Arne Duncan, (eighth grade are those most likely to have been in the Chicago system for a majority of Duncan’s tenure.)  Seventy-five percent of Chicago students scored below 283 in the math assessment.Nationally, Chicago is the third largest school district with over 408,000 students.
Its budget for 2007-2008 was $4.6 billion, according to information released by Chicago Public Schools.
$862 million of that was supplied by the federal government. You know, money you and I helped supply.
Gosh….I can only hope he will do as well for us as he did for Chicago.