Ed Secretary pimping for the gangs. What a nice bunch just waiting for their chance to be doctors.

Mr. Duncan, they already have jobs and it's crime. Drugs, prostitution, internecine murder. Is there no one in the Obama regime who is not an appeaser? The gangs must be laughing their butts off.

Let not Mr. Duncan get off too easily. In whose hands have these gang members been in since Head-start to high school. For what trades or professions have they been trained? What are their reading and math skills? Progressives have been control of the education system for at least 60 years. The systems and techniques produced by fantastical thinking technocrats has not only failed these men but continues to drag down skills children leave school with. The worst scores are in the areas in which the greatest leniency occurred.

Education Secretary Meets With Chicago Gang Leaders: They Just Need Jobs

(CNSNews.com) – Education Secretary Arne Duncan said on Tuesday that he has met with gang leaders in his hometown of Chicago and they’ve told him that it’s a lack of jobs that keeps them on the streets.

“We have to have jobs for young people,” Duncan said at the National Summit on Youth Violence Prevention in Crystal City, Va. “I probably shouldn’t say this in a room like this, but occasionally when I go home I’ll sit down with some of the gang leaders – back home in Chicago.”

He said he asked them what was the “biggest impediment” to getting gangs to stop their illicit activities.

“It’s jobs,” Duncan told the federal government-sponsored event. “So we need to think about what we do at scale to create those kind of opportunities for young people who just have to make some money, want to do it in a positive way, but in too many places they don’t exist.”

A May 2013 CBS report described Chicago as the gang capital of the United States, citing a 2012 Chicago Crime Commission (CCC) audit that found there were around 600 gangs operating in the city with membership totaling 70,000.

“As the number of gangs in the city increase, it's difficult for gangs to control large areas. Instead, gangs cling to streets,” the article stated. “Territory disputes mean increased rivalry and as a result, more shootings.”

The report also referred to a 2011 Chicago Police analysis showing that a quarter of the 433 homicides that year were gang related.

The CCC generally defines a gang as “a group of individuals with regular meeting patterns, have recognizable geographical territory (typically identified by graffiti), leadership structure, a stated purpose or manifesto, and various levels of an organized, continuous course of criminal activities,” according to CBS.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in Chicago for March 2015 – not seasonally adjusted – was 6.4 percent, while the national rate for that month was 5.5 percent.