so at the end of this month, education ernie duncan will be stepping down. t's safe to say that you've enjoyed a somewhat timultuous relationship with the obama administration and the department in general. this id you learn from relationship? did they prod you in any way to sort of reassess the role of the unions? that sort of have relationship with the department and secretary duncan. i've been asked, you know, a lot of times, you know, what our relationship was like. and i always want to begin with, i think he's a very sincere honest and he's a very person. he wants to be open about how he feels. he never threw any punches, he never told us one thing and did another. we had some really honest disagreements on key things like the role of standardized testing and what that test should should be the t results, whereas someone says, held someone should be accountable. for a child that comes to school hungry and has a hard time learning, for a class of 39 graders that i've had in my -- so i should be held every child hat hits the cut score on a standardized te