Arne Duncan
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Arne Duncan is a prominent education leader known for his role in pushing aggressive school reform and addressing issues of equity in education. This interview reveals his commitment to improving public education and his ability to build coalitions across political divides to achieve meaningful change.
“I don't want to blow through this, does Kurt have credibility? But I think that's probably 3% of his effectiveness, 97% of his effectiveness is these guys know he loves it. And that he loves them. And I've seen Kurt in some of the toughest, heartbreak, and most dangerous situations.”
“Two things that for us, the school shutting down was a real blow in a lot of the carjackings and stuff were kids that were already on the edges of school and then just lost. And what people don't realize in schools closed wasn't the schools closed. They lost all the extracurriculars. So they lost sports. They lost band.”
“Probably hasn't heard this story. Kurt will laugh because it was actually Kurt's group. So in the neighborhood where we work was the Blackstone Rangers and the first church that was a group that Kurt was a leader of. So we can talk about that. Kurt wasn't in that neighborhood. He was a little further south.”
“You don't have to chample it, but our founding fathers didn't envision assault weapons. They didn't envision tanks. They didn't envision nuclear weapons. No one can have a tank in our country. No one have a nuclear weapon. Why were weapons in war on our streets? It just, it makes no sense whatsoever.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 22 - Arne Duncan
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