From the Guardian. Obama's Education Secretary backs Coalition school reforms
Arne Duncan supports Gove's plans:
"He backed a vision of "free schools" which are funded by the taxpayer but able to adopt their own teaching methods and vary the curriculum. Duncan accused critics who said these schools would flourish at the expense of existing state schools of indulging in "phoney debates".
"There are lots of different ways to get at equality of education but just perpetuating a status quo that's broken is not going to help children, not going to change their families' future, and does a grave disservice to our country," he said."
"These are all public schools, these are all our children, these are our dollars and they're all accountable to us."
Does he have a point?