Talk:Arne Duncan

message: In October, 2008, as head of the Chicago Public Schools, Duncan recommended the district open its first high school specifically designed for gay, lesbian and transgender teens, saying, "If you look at national studies, you see gay and lesbian students with high dropout rates...Studies show they are disproportionately homeless...I think there is a niche there we need to fill."
Also in October, 2008, Ken Rolling, the former executive director of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and associate director of the Woods Fund, both of which organizations were founded or chaired at some time by controversial figure Bill Ayers, was cited in Education Week as countering claims that the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was a failure by asserting that the project helped shape Duncan's agenda, especially related to improving teacher quality.
:Seems to me adding this is an attempt at creating controversy by employing a guilt by association (however tenuous) about Duncan by injecting Bill Ayres into the article. Furthermore, Duncan being tapped as Education Secretary is actually a blow to Ayres and the others tied with Annenberg as noted by numerous political observers here, here and here. Lestatdelc (talk) 07:25, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy 

message: Cases have been cited as they appear and published on the web, which makes all materials of concern available to the public seeking information and in the public domain.  A book is about to be published concerning the fraud. A news article already exists and newspaper(s) will also be caring this story and the cover up.  Various websites which are coving these cases exist and more materials for actual quotes are also being posted.  The school with others has attempted to gag anyone who speaks.  Removing it furthers the coverup.
If you have suggestions as to how to provide and note already public information, please advise.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ka7hvz (talk • contribs) 14:06, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless there are major news sources for this information, it should not be included on Wikipedia. LQ (talk) 08:37, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

text: See Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Presumption%20in%20favor%20of%20privacy  —Preceding unsigned comment added by LQ (talk • contribs) 08:46, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I 9and other editors) have warned the above user against the attempted insertion of this material. The details are explained in the talk page for Margaret Spellings  As the user is by his own admission engaged in a lawsuit against the subject, the edits, besides being violations of BLP policy, and also being highly unreasonable, are also blatant violation of our Conflict of Interest policy. Any continuation of them will result in not justthe removal of the material, but blocking of the editor. `    DGG ( talk ) 14:15, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy section regarding academic fraud 

message: In January, 2005, Arne Duncan became majority owner of Wisconsin Cheeseman, a prominent mail-order and retail cheese and novelty outlet. As such, Duncan has a cheese named after him called the Duncanter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackson72 (talk • contribs) 06:52, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Business Interests 

message: Arne Duncan has come under frequent criticism from community and parent groups for the closing and turnaround of neighborhood schools following lack of support from the Chicago Board of Education. Despite large-scale protest against 19 school closings at the February 27, 2008 board meeting, at Duncan's request, the Board voted unanimously to close the schools.
Cite: http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?section=Article&page=133
Researchers such as the University of Illinois at Chicago have also questioned why under Duncan minority children have been directly toward military schooling. As of 2009, Chicago will have six of the 17 high school military academies in the country. 
Cite: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/july-dec07/military_12-26.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.237.187.149 (talk) 17:24, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community Criticism 

message: Add Kerrie Holley, IBM Fellow as childhood friend.  Arne Duncan will confirm as well as Arne's siblings and mother. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chicago312606 (talk • contribs) 17:27, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add friend to 

message: I just saw a story on TV a few minutes ago about child abuse in the Chicago Public Schools.  Reportedly, there are about 600 confirmed cases of children being physically abused by teachers in the Chicago Public Schools, but only about 20 teachers have been "separated."  Obviously, if he did not do everything within his power to protect children while he was the CEO of Chicago Public Schools, he needs to be fired from his current position as Education Secretary.  What did he know? 206.251.3.202 (talk) 21:07, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What did he know about the rampant child abuse in Chicago Public Schools? 

message: Needs a major rewrite. His appointment and his time as head of Chicago public schools were controversial, and there is nothing about that in the article.Haberstr (talk) 16:31, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoops-obsessed puff piece 

message: Was Sec. Duncan ever a classroom teacher?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.0.179.247 (talk) 00:41, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Teaching Career 

message: is embarrassing and has no significance in 'this day and age'. I lopped off the final two names on the list.  "IBM Fellow Kerrie Holley and martial artist Michelle Gordon" should not even have Wikipedia entries (Wikipedia:Notability), but that's another matter.Haberstr (talk) 20:58, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: 152.9.102.200, it quite clear from her Wikipedia entry that Michelle Gordon is not notable under Wikipedia encyclopedia standards (though she seems to be a fine person). Let's talk, though, if you want to discuss the matter.Haberstr (talk) 15:41, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

text: "mainstream American"? What a disgusting wretch who would write such garbage. -- 184.189.217.91 (talk) 07:33, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 'Hey, look at me, I have black friends!' sentence 

message: Without very good sources supporting its notability, we will not allow links to a petition calling for this subject to resign his office.  (And even with such sources, we probably still wouldn't allow links to the petition itself.) ElKevbo (talk) 15:00, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Resignation petition

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