Washington — Education Secretary Arne Duncan told private-college officials here this morning that he was “extraordinarily focused” on increasing student aid and argued that putting money into education through the stimulus bill now moving through Congress was “the best thing we can do long-term” to shore up the nation’s economy.
In a speech at the annual meeting of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Mr. Duncan lauded the resources devoted to students, schools, and colleges in the economic-stimulus legislation and cited the adage that one should “never waste a great crisis.”
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