VA and Education Nominees
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PM Tuesday, January 13, 2009
VA and Education Nominees
President-elect Obama is nominating Chicago public school CEO Arne
Duncan (hearing Tuesday) to be secretary of education and Eric Shinseki
(hearing Wednesday) to head the Department of Veterans Affairs.
AARON GLANTZ, aa...@aaronglantz.com, http://www.warcomeshome.org
Author of "The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's
Veterans," Glantz is Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism
at The Carter Center.
He said today: About 200,000 veterans sleep homeless on the streets
every night in this country. According to the VAs own numbers, 18
veterans commit suicide every day. Veterans returning home from Iraq and
Afghanistan are already falling through the cracks.
"President-elect Obama and Gen. Shinseki have the power to end this
national disgrace. They have the power to streamline the VA bureaucracy
so it helps rather than fights those who have been wounded in the line
of duty. They can ensure that this latest generation of returning
veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan does not receive the bum rap the
Vietnam War generation got."
PAULINE LIPMAN, pli...@uic.edu
Lipman is professor of policy studies at the College of Education at
the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her books include "High Stakes
Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform." She is
available to address Arne Duncan's record in Chicago and education
policy generally.
Critical background information on Duncan is available from these
Chicago-based groups:
Parents United for Responsible Education: http://www.pureparents.org
Substance News: http://www.substancenews.net
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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