U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will be in Cary this weekend for what his office is calling a "major policy speech" focusing on international standards for school achievement.
Duncan will be offering the keynote address Sunday night at the Governors Education Symposium, a meeting sponsored by the James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy, Lynn Bonner reports.
Duncan's speech will be the second in a series of four leading up to the opening of competition for $5 billion from the "Race to the Top" fund — money Duncan will dole out to states to encourage school improvements.
The fund is part of the stimulus money Congress approved earlier this year.
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Re: Education secretary to visit Cary
This must be an oxymoron:
"James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy"
Most of the problems and corruption in this state can be traced to Hunt's behind-the-scene string-pulling and cronyism.
What a joke - who wants to bet that the basic theme will be "we need more money"?