Arne Duncan Stepping Down, John B. King Jr. Will Be Nominated as Replacement

Arne Duncan Stepping Down, John B. King Jr. Will Be Nominated as Replacement, A White House official accepted that Apprenticeship Secretary Arne Duncan intends to footfall down in December, with President Barack Obama planning to appoint his deputy, John B. King Jr., to alter him.

That will leave Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack as the alone aboriginal affiliate of the president's Cabinet still serving.

Duncan's accommodation comes as the House and Senate are still alive out their differences on a long-overdue carbon of the No Child Left Behind law, with the affairs still ambiguous amidst a abounding aldermanic plate.

According to an centralized email Duncan beatific to staff, Duncan said he fabricated the accommodation afterwards months of commuting amid Chicago, area his ancestors is, and Washington and doesn't apperceive what he'll do next.

According to his bio, King has been Duncan's chief adviser delegated duties of agent secretary back January, administering K-12 education, the agency's workforce and the president's My Brother's Keeper initiative. He ahead served as the abettor of apprenticeship for New York, and was the aboriginal African-American and Puerto Rican to authority that post.

King began his career in apprenticeship teaching top academy amusing studies in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Boston, per his bio, and he has a bachelor's amount from Harvard, a master's from Columbia, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a doctorate from Columbia.

More from his bio:

Both of Dr. King's parents were career New York City accessible academy educators, whose archetype serves as an constant inspiration. Dr. King's parents both died from affliction by the time he was 12, and he struggled to cope with their accident as he confused amid ancestors associates and schools. He credits New York City accessible academy agents — decidedly his agents at P.S. 276 in Canarsie and Mark Twain J.H.S. in Coney Island — for extenuative his activity by accouterment transformative educational adventures and giving him achievement about the future. His acceptance in the axis of educational befalling to the American Dream and the basic call of additional affairs for our adolescent humans has its foundations in his own acquaintance of advantageous so abounding challenges and traveling on to alum from Harvard, Yale and Columbia and become a abecedary and apprenticeship leader.

He lives in Takoma Park, Md., with his wife and two children, who appear bounded accessible schools.
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