U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan Resigns

Obama doesn’t intend to nominate King or another candidate for education secretary before his presidency ends in early 2017, said a White House official, who wasn’t authorized to comment by name and spoke on condition of anonymity. Duncan cast the federal testing as a civil rights issue, critical to making school ensure that students of all races and backgrounds succeed.

During his time as secretary, Duncan prioritized K-12 education and made his first initiative the administration’s signature the Race to the Top program, in which states competed for federal grants. His wife, Karen, is ready to resume her full-time career in education and will work at her former employer, the University of Chicago Laboratory School, where their children will attend school.

“If our states and localities took just half the people convicted of nonviolent crimes and found paths for them other than incarceration, they would save upwards of $15 billion a year”, Duncan said. “They are the reason that I became a teacher”.

“I didn’t expect the answer: that the majority of the arrests were occurring during the school day, in our school buildings, mostly for nonviolent misdemeanors”, Duncan said. He’s always been one of the president’s closest friends in the administration, their relationship forged in the days before either came to national prominence.

Duncan’s first year in office began, with reports of him being an exceptional figure and implying that we would be one of the most powerful secretaries of education in history. In 2011, King became New York state education commissioner, where he led the transition to the Common Core. “To see what he can accomplish, I think that’s what drives all of us”.

Duncan is stepping down as the United States school graduation rate is at an all-time high and more Americans are graduating from college than ever before, the president claimed.

Obama called Duncan a genuine guy, something even his detractors in Congress and at teachers unions would agree with. But much of America most likely knows him not for his views on student-loan servicing but for being the biggest basketball devotee in the US cabinet.

King’s ascension was hailed by education advocates in New York, but derided by the teachers union – which battled King during his time at the helm in New York.

Connelly said the group was looking forward to working with Duncan’s successor, John King, Jr., in “putting into place the necessary support systems for principal leadership so that every child will receive a well-rounded educational experience”. Well, technically he will be acting secretary of Education.

The Associated Press obtained a letter that Duncan penned to his staff in which the secretary discloses that he will travel to Chicago to live with his family upon leaving the White House.

“His life story is a testament to the potential for our public schools to literally save lives”, Tisch continued.

The charged rhetoric often drowned out teachers’ legitimate concerns about how to put Common Core into action inside the classroom, Dee says.

In 2014, the Education Department sent guidance to colleges, universities and public schools on handling sexual violence on campus.