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Tuesday, 17 February 2009

For US Education Chief, (Education) Stimulus (100 billion$) Means Power and Risk

Click here for the article of The New York Times, February 16, 2009.

WASHINGTON — The $100 billion in emergency aid for public schools and colleges in the economic stimulus bill could transform Arne Duncan into an exceptional figure in the history of federal education policy: a secretary of education loaded with money and the power to spend large chunks of it as he sees fit.

But the money also poses challenges and risks for Mr. Duncan, the 44-year-old former Chicago schools chief who now heads the Department of Education.

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