Arne Duncan is the current Secretary of Education in Washington and was the greatest architect of the Renaissance 2010 movement within Chicago Public Schools. He has been an effective leader for the charter school movement, or “turnover” schools that are beginning to shape the educational systems of disadvantaged cities throughout the rest of the United States of America. There are many people who support the introduction of charter schools into the education system, but there are others who see the negative impact on their families and children. This renaissance is good for creating a better education for students, but the scales are tipped heavily to one side, harming people who are or have been involved in Chicago Public Schools. The goals of the Renaissance 2010 initiative within Chicago Public Schools are to close schools and open new ones in the hope that private schools will replace them. In an article titled “Making Sense of Renaissance 2010 School Policy in Chicago: Race, Class, and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberal Urban Restructuring” the author, Pauline Lipman, describes what is in store for the new schools, “a plan to close 1960s and 70s schools and reopen 100 new schools, at least two-thirds as charter or contract schools” (Lipman, 2009). This article explains what Renaissance 2010 is by telling the reader that the plan is to close Chicago's public schools and replace them with 100 charter schools. On the website provided by the Chicago Public Schools, there is a description of what the Renaissance 2010 movement intends to do directly from "The main goal of Renaissance 2010 was to open 100 quality schools in the most disadvantaged areas of the city by 2010 " (CPS, 2014). The fact is that R... in the middle of the paper ...ady has closed numerous schools that have destroyed communities, taken away jobs and made promises that cannot be kept. If Arne Duncan can reform his reform, then there may be some hope for the aftermath of what was the 2010 Renaissance. Works Cited Brown, J., Gutstein, E., & Lipman, P. (2009, May 29) . Arne Duncan and the Chicago Success Story: Myth or Reality? | Common dreams. Common dreams. Retrieved April 10, 2014. Fitzpatrick, L. (2014, April 8). Hundreds of charter school supporters rally in Springfield.Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved April 10, 2014. Lipman, P. (2009). Making sense of Renaissance school politics 2010 in Chicago: Race, class, and the cultural politics of neoliberal urban restructuring. The Great Cities Institute, GCP-09-02, 3. Retrieved April 5, 2014. Who we are. (n.d.). Chicago Public Schools: Who we are. April extract 10, 2014.