 a problem so bad even obama won t touch it from the lansing state journal  detroit mdash us education secretary arne duncan has voiced concern about the very high dropout rates in the detroit school district but says it shouldn t count on the federal government to step in and save it we all know how terrible the detroit public school system is in 2007 education week claimed that the high school graduation rate was 27 dps claims they have a rate of 58 quite a difference either way detroit is and will most likely remain the worst school district in the nation but can t we get arne duncan s philosophy of leaving the problem to the states applied to more than just high school graduation problems could be maybe just maybe be left alone to solve our own problems instead of the federal government micro managing every aspect of our country health care issues come to mind call me cynical but i don t think obama will be halting his wholesale takeover the united states anytime soon  