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Teachers threatened with arrest for asking to speak with Arne Duncan during Advance Illinois breakfast

You can read a transcript of Arne Duncan's remarks here.

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by Garth Liebhaber and George N. Schmidt

While more than 300 of the most powerful and in some cases wealthiest people in Illinois gathered in the plush Regency Ballroom of Chicago's Regency Hyatt Hotel on the morning of June 19, 2009, nearly 100 teachers and parents were protesting up on the sidewalk against the education policies of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who was the featured speaker at the breakfast.

Duncan was being feted in Chicago by a group called "Advance Illinois," which has billed itself as and "objective" and "research based" organization dedicated to reforming the public schools of Illinois. But critics note that Advance Illinois, based on both its corporate funding, its corporate leadership, and its corporate agenda, looks just like an updated version of the Illinois Business Roundtable and the Civic Committee of the [Chicago] Commercial Club, the two corporate entities that have provided much of the financing and propaganda for corporate "school reform" in Chicago during the past 20 years.

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