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Secretary Arne Duncan at the Brookings Institution (May 11, 2009)
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Secretary Duncan takes questions from the audience at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where he spoke about the Race to the Top funds under ARRA. "With Race to the Top, there is real money on the table for states and districts that are creatively and aggressively driving reform.... We have neither time nor money to waste," Duncan said.


Secretary Duncan speaks at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where he told the audience that the Obama administration is changing the federal Title I program to aggressively drive reform in schools that need it the most by shifting $13 billion dollars into Title I through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the proposed 2010 budget. Secretary Duncan shown with Grover Whitehurst in Washington, D.C.
Secretary Duncan takes questions from the audience at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where he spoke about the Race to the Top funds under ARRA.  

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