Reinventing No Child Left Behind

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-- displaced thousands of disadvantaged youths;

-- militarized the city's high schools perhaps more than anywhere else in the county to institutionalize JROTC programs with some schools entirely for military studies;

-- fought against desegregating over 300 city schools;

-- opposed special education programs; and

-- ignored parents' complaints to defend corporate involvement in city schools.

His mandate as Education Secretary is to do for the nation what he did to Chicago:

-- control K-12 education in America;

-- require states and local school boards to comply with federal mandates;

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