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Then-Education Secretary Arne Duncan speaks at the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention, Tuesday, May 12, 2015, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Ex-Obama education chief compares anti-mask Americans to suicide bombers

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘How Schools Work’ by Arne Duncan

By Bill Evers

In this Dec. 14, 2012, file photo, officials stand outside of Sandy Hook Elementary School after a shooting in Newtown, Conn. Connecticut State Police are planning to release a report assessing the agency’s response to the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) **FILE**

Obama White House figures sought to ‘tap peoples emotions’ for gun control after Sandy Hook

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Deborah Simmons

Arne Duncan owes an apology

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

Then-Education Secretary Arne Duncan speaks at the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention, Tuesday, May 12, 2015, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Arne Duncan urges parents to boycott schools until gun laws change

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

Then-Education Secretary Arne Duncan speaks at the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention, Tuesday, May 12, 2015, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Arne Duncan, Peter Cunningham propose school boycott to push for gun control

By Valerie Richardson and Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

Group formed to ensure neighborhoods boosted by Obama Center

Associated Press

President Barack Obama pats Education Secretary Arne Duncan's back in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, as Duncan announced that he will be stepping down in December after 7 years in the Obama administration. Duncan will be returning to Chicago and Obama has appointed senior Education Department official, John King Jr., to oversee the Education Department. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Arne Duncan, Obama’s education secretary, stepping down

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 12, 2015 file photo, Education Secretary Arne Duncan speaks in Arlington, Va. Nearly 1 in 4 surveyed U.S. students say they have been bullied in school. That&#8217;s an improvement, but the prevalence reinforces just how difficult the problem is to solve. A 6 percentage point decline _ from 28 percent of students age 12 to 18 saying they were bullied in 2013 compared to 22 percent two years earlier _ comes after years of focus on the problem from local school officials on up to the federal government. It&#8217;s the lowest level since the National Center for Education Statistics began surveying students on bullying in 2005, the Education Department said Friday when the results were released. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

PEGGY VENABLE: Give all children the education choice Secretary Duncan’s kids have

By Peggy Venable

First lady Michelle Obama welcomed over 130 college-bound high school students to the daylong White House event as part of her Reach Higher initiative. (Associated Press)

Michelle Obama Reach Higher initiative: Making school cool an ingredient to success

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

TAMMY BRUCE: Public boarding schools would allow state to parent children

By Tammy Bruce

In December, 2008, President-elect Obama and Education Secretary-designate Arne Duncan, left, mingle at Chicago's Dodge Renaissance Academy. Incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, center, looks on. (AP Photo)

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Obama’s failing grade on education: Contrived crisis, cronyism

By Armstrong Williams

Education Secretary Arne Duncan (Associated Press) **FILE**

Arne Duncan accuses GOP of cutting aid to black, Hispanic students

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

DEBORAH SIMMONS: Level playing field, ‘all’ students mean vouchers, too

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

DEBORAH SIMMONS: Education reform has a black eye

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden pose with the full Cabinet for an official group photo in the East Room of the White House on Sept. 10, 2009.

Seated from left: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.

Standing second row, from left: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan E. Rice, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

Back row, from left: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, and Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

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Duncan, Vilsack are last 2 original Obama Cabinet secretaries

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan visits a classroom at Brick Church College Prep in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Duncan also spoke to an association of education writers and to teachers at Vanderbilt University. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

Under fire from teachers union, Obama, Duncan sit down with educators

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times