This time, he got a response, in the form of a tweet on Friday from a school superintendent. The superintendent is Joshua Starr of Montgomery County, Md., who has been a critic of some of the standardized test-driven school reforms that Duncan has implemented as President Obama’s education secretary. This Washington Post story reported that Duncan recently advised New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio against selecting Starr as the city’s new schools chancellor. (Starr was offered the deputy chancellor’s job and turned it down.)
Here’s what Starr tweeted on Friday in response to Duncan’s op-ed:
The truth helps http://t.co/SZwDsyuZSS via @washingtonpost. I resent implication that we lifelong public educators are liars.
— Joshua Starr (@mcpssuper) January 24, 2014