Education
In this segment we cover a press conference with Education Secretary Arne Duncan on the proposed 2014 budget for education. Among the initiatives discussed is a tax on tobacco to fund universal preschool and a plan to protect students with loans from interest rate increases. United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Carmel Martin, assistant secretary for planning, evaluation and policy development at the Department of Education. Ayla Gavins is the principal of the Mission Hill K-8 School in Jamaica Plain, MA. Dr. Josh Starr began his tenure as Montgomery County Public Schools’ superintendent of schools on July 1, 2011, after having been the superintendent in Stamford, Connecticut.