Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell joined U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Friday morning for a brief chat on ways to better provide educational access to youngsters.

The Obama adminstration is currently working to overhaul the No Child Left Behind Act, a standards-based system that judges schools based on testing, and a law which Duncan called “far too punitive.”

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