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Do Democrats Give a Crap About Public Schools? John King as Next US Secretary of Education | gadflyonthewallblog

Do Democrats Give a Crap About Public Schools? John King as Next US Secretary of Education | gadflyonthewallblog:

Do Democrats Give a Crap About Public Schools? John King as Next US Secretary of Education

John King, Arne Duncan



Meet the New Boss.
Same as the Old Boss.
Arne Duncan is out. John King is in.
It’s the kind of tone deaf decision we’ve come to expect from President Barack Obama on education matters.
We’ve put up with 7 years of Duncan’s buffoonery as U.S. Secretary of Education: A man with no practical knowledge of the field. A corporate functionary. A drone. A mouthpiece for all the worst ideas of the 1% to sabotage public schools and replace them with charters.
And who does Obama replace him with!? Former New York State Chancellor King!? A man who was almost run out of his state on a rail!? A man with – admittedly – more experience than Duncan but all of the worst kind.
King resigned his NY position in the throes of terrible publicity for his and NY Board of Regents’ foolish approval of an obviously fraudulent charter school run by anDo Democrats Give a Crap About Public Schools? John King as Next US Secretary of Education | gadflyonthewallblog: