Ed. Sec. To Discuss Education Reform In St. Paul

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will be in Minnesota this week to talk about the planned overhaul of the nation's most important education law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Duncan is scheduled to visit on Tuesday students and teachers at Dayton's Bluff Achievement Plus Elementary School, a public school on the east side of St. Paul.

He will then hold a round-table discussion with educators and Sen. Al Frankin, D-Minn., about the reauthorization of the law.

Duncan has pressed to have the overhaul done before the beginning of the next school year. However, the chairman of the House education committee, Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., has said it won't be finished by then.

The committee is doing the overhaul in pieces. It passed the first bill on May 25.

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