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The Daily Report Card: Duncan, Merit Pay, Campus Safety, And ‘America The Beautiful’

    Back-to-School Special: Arne Duncan Goes Off Script – TIME U.S. Ed Secretary Arne Duncan speaks to TIME about a wide variety of issues, including NCLB waivers and reauthorization. (time.com)

    “It would be the height of arrogance and tone-deafness to just sit here and do nothing when you have a law that simply isn’t working for children, their schools, and teachers.”
    —U.S. Ed. Sec’y Arne Duncan

    TSC sets committee to look at merit pay options – Journal and Courier States have given districts local control of how the merit pay systems, which must be implemented by the 2012-13 school year, will work. (The Courier-Journal )

    Goshen College will play ‘America The Beautiful’ instead of national anthem at sporting events – The Indianapolis Star The college has ties to the pacifist Mennonite Church… making the whole “bombs bursting in air” thing kinda problematic. (Indianapolis Star)

    Indiana University mindful of campus safety – 13 WTHR …but most incoming students, who moved in Wednesday, are not too concerned about their safety. (thr.com)

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