Arne Duncan Punts

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has blamed opposition to the Common Core K-12 curriculum standards on "white suburban moms." David Harsanyi, senior editor of The Federalist and a nationally syndicated columnist, points out just how wrong-headed this assessment is. Harsanyi concludes:

The administration isn’t interested in “suburban white moms” getting in its way, and it sure doesn’t want minority moms having too many choices. Duncan’s recent comments weren’t “clumsy,” they were part of a pattern. A pattern that undermines innovation and allows the achievement gap to get worse.

No surprise, the Obama Department of Education is a de facto wholly owned subsidiary of the teachers' unions. Teachers' unions oppose innovation on principle.