President-elect Barack Obama, center, accompanied by Vice President elect Joe Biden, right, introduces Arne Duncan
as his Education Secretary-designate, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008, at the Dodge Renaissance Academy in Chicago.
Hoop It Up would
like to congratulate Arne Duncan on this tremendous honor. Arne's "Ariel Slow and Steady" team has won the Hoop It Up World
Championships in 2004 (Las Vegas), 2005 (Orlando) and 2007 (Miami)!
CHICAGO (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama
announced Arne Duncan, the head of the Chicago school system, as Education Secretary Tuesday and said failing to improve classroom
instruction is "morally unacceptable for our children."
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