December 17, 2008
Obama Praises His Education-Secretary Choice for Relying on Data to Improve Schools
Washington
President-elect Barack Obama said on Tuesday he values his choice for education secretary, Arne Duncan, for his dogged determination to use data to drive his decisions about how he sought to improve the Chicago Public Schools.
“When faced with tough decisions, Arne doesn’t blink,” Mr. Obama said as he presented Mr. Duncan, the chief executive of Chicago's public-school system, as his choice to run the Education Department. “He’s not beholden to any one ideology, and
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