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Former Drug-Dealer-Turned-State-Trooper Leigha Genduso Resigns

Matthew McDonald

Leigha Genduso, who became a Massachusetts state trooper despite having admitted in 2007 in open court that she had sold drugs, helped her then-live-in boyfriend launder money from his drug dealing, and lied to a grand jury, has resigned from the Massachusetts State Police.

A State Police investigation found that Genduso didn't tell the truth on her application and to the trooper who performed a background investigation on her before her hiring.

How To Become Secretary of Education Without Really Doing Anything
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How To Become Secretary of Education Without Really Doing Anything

Sandra Stotsky

How Schools Work:  An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education
By Arne Duncan
Simon & Schuster, 256 pages, $26.99

According to the opening pages of Arne Duncan's memoir How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success, American education runs on lies. Described by his publishers as one of the "nation's longest-serving secretaries of education (2009-2015)," the country's former top education official has finally provided, in 2018, a piece of writing on education.

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