Obama, Duncan Head To Miami Promoting Education Investments

President Barack Obama, along with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, will visit a Miami high school Friday to discuss the types of investments in education required to “win the future.”

“Every day educators across the country are challenging the status quo and showing that low-performing schools can be turned around,” Duncan wrote in a Miami Herald Op-Ed. “The burdens of poverty are real, and overcoming those burdens takes hard work and resources. But poverty is not destiny.”

The trio will visit Miami Central High School, better known as Central, which was awarded nearly $800,000 in federal funding to accelerate turnaround efforts. The school replaced half of its staff, increased standards for students and increased community outreach programs that helped turn the school around.

“Turning around a struggling school is some of the toughest work in education,” Duncan said. “The administration is supporting an array of bold options to help the children trapped in America’s lowest-performing schools. ‘More of the same’ is not one of them.”