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let bring in arne duncan, th former u.s. secretary of education.joins us first on cnbc ahead of his mill kin conference panel. appreciate it, mr. secretary welcome. >> good afternoon. thanks for having me you know, i think one of the significant but small changes that will probably come out of all of this is a big rise in home-schooling certainly a lot of parent have sent their kid now to private and parochial schools who wouldn't have done so in the past, and public schools who once kind of had a lock on education, you can kind of feel that slipping this year as a result of everything that's happened what's that going to look like if we spin the clock forward five or ten years from now >> yeah. i'm not sure ifity agree with that long-term trend it's been obviously an extraordinarily difficult time for kids, for parents, for teachers we shouldn't be in this situation. this was a natural disaster that morphed into a manmade catastrophe. at the end of the day kids want to be in bricks and mortar schools and want to be around their friends. parents ha

like senator ted kennedy and congressman george miller and tend-- the obama administration, arne dunc duncan, my good friend. and we leaned into the issues that i think all americans have. and karen's point having people around you as president, who know you well. who know what you're about as well as people who know washington well and i remember, you know, having that feeling of, gosh, i don't know a heck of a lot about what they're talking about, but i do know a heck of a lot about george w. bush and i know how he thinks about things and priorities and the like. so i think being to alexis' point, humble in the opportunity. understanding the gravitas of the situation, the soberness of being at the white house, and the awesomeness of your charge and really, there's plenty of work for everybody figuring out how to create a symphony of players with the expertise that can get something done. and in our case, the first priority was said bye barbara perry, no child left behind and all the things that president bush did on week one in office to build those bridges, build those relationships and g