Arne Duncan Urges Department of Education Staff to Attend Al Sharpton Rally

Want to know why education is such a mess? The liberals are running the show. Take for instance the latest shenanigans coming from the Department of Education.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the failed Chicago schools supervisor, recently urged staff in the Department of Education to attend an Al Sharpton rally. How this benefits our Republic's students is beyond me.

"ED staff are invited to join Secretary Arne Duncan, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and other leaders on Saturday, Aug. 28, for the 'Reclaim the Dream' rally and march," began an internal e-mail sent to more than 4,000 employees of the Department of Education on Wednesday.

But the Sharpton Reclaim the Dream rally had little to do with being purely about the great Martin Luther King. Rather it was a retaliation rally to Glenn Beck's weekend rally also held in Washington, DC, this past weekend.

From the Washington Examiner:

Although the e-mail does not violate the Hatch Act, which forbids federal employees from participating in political campaigns, Education Department workers should feel uneasy, said David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute.

"It sends a signal that activity on behalf of one side of a political debate is expected within a department. It's highly inappropriate ... even in the absence of a direct threat," Boaz said. "If we think of a Bush cabinet official sending an e-mail to civil servants asking them to attend a Glenn Beck rally, there would be a lot of outrage over that."