I think a gesture toward PS teachers and their unions would go a long way right about now.

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. That would be a gesture.

And he doesn't have to "fire" him. Mr. Duncan could gracefully resign so he could "pursue other interests"... whatever they might be. ( Maybe he could try something he's never done before. Like *teach*. Tee-hee.)

Short of that... Obama could acknowledge the , let's say, "excesses" of corporate school "reform".

Examples abound: frivolous school closings, $$$ mismanagement of all varieties, union-busting, teacher harassment, privatization, economic and racial stratification promoted and accelerated by privatization, testing-abuse, data manipulation ( including but not limited to cheating) and ....most heinous of all.... the creation of a new, gigantic, impenetrable, patronage-heavy, school "reform" bureaucracy.

So far he HAS intimated that there could be such a thing as excessive standardized testing.

OK. That's a start. (Sort of. I wonder what it's like to live in his world. I really do) But it's not enough to send me to Pennsylvania for a week.