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Education Secretary Urges Communities to Step Up, Support Schools  Arne Duncan and rapper Common at Memorial Middle School US Education Secretary Arne Duncan unveiled a new national program Friday in Orlando to promote community involvement in schools. Duncan visited Memorial Middle School, which he praised as a model for others to follow. Memorial Middle School is one of a group of schools under the Together for Tomorrow initiative, which aims to improve low performing schools. At Memorial middle, help is provided to coordinate volunteer mentors and tutors by staff from the federal government’s Corporation for National and Community Service. Duncan says the program is boosting grades and attendance at the school. “We can’t just do things the same way. You get this school, you have an amazing new principal who’s come in, you have the community partners stepping up in lots of different ways to be part of the solution, and that’s what we need, and it makes me very very hopeful about what can happen for these young children.” Duncan says the initiative will also reach out to faith based groups and other community organizations to help raise the performance of struggling schools across the US.
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