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Guess what Arne’s lying about now


We’ve caught him lying about turnaround schools and charter schools, and his overall track record.
But apparently this bad habit has former Chicago Public Schools CEO and current Education Secretary Arne Duncan mythologizing himself, too. A friend alerted me to this recent New Jersey Star-Ledger interview where Duncan makes this claim:

When I was in high school in the South Side of Chicago, my friends could drop out and get a