Obama has chosen John B. King Jr., who currently acts as deputy secretary of education, to replace Duncan. King is a Brooklyn native who often credits teachers with guiding him toward a successful path after he was orphaned at age 12.
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Nevertheless, he enjoyed strong support from U.S. President Barack Obama who praised his work as Secretary of Education by saying, Arne has done more to bring our educational system -- sometimes kicking and screaming -- into the 21st century than anybody else..
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Arne Duncan (born November 6, 1964) was the United States Secretary of Education from 2009 through early 2016. His tenure as Secretary was marked by controversy.
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U.S. Secretary of Education[edit] Duncan was appointed U.S. Secretary of Education by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate on January 20, 2009. One of Duncan's initiatives as secretary has been a $4 billion Race to the Top competition.
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Education was not a top. policy priority for the Carter team, and forma-. tion of a new department ran counter to his. platform of streamlining the Federal government, but education was important to the candidate on. a personal level.
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By Juliet Eilperin, Lyndsey Layton and Emma Brown October 2, 2015 Follow @eilperin Follow @lyndseylayton Follow @emmersbrown. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to step down from his Cabinet position by the end of the year, leaving the Obama administration more than a year before the president’s term will end. [Read Duncan’s e-mail to his staff, announcing his decision]
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A Brief History of the. United States Department of Education: 1979–2002. “[E]ducation is a local responsibility, a state function, and a national concern.” 1. (HEW), who began work in earnest on the. formation of a department in the 1960’s.
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Education and the Federal Government. The responsibility for the education of Ameri-. can children has enjoyed at least a small. presence at the Federal level since the middle of. the 19th century, usually in the form of indepen-. dent programs housed in separate Cabinet-level. departments.
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Establishing a Federal Department of Education. In the period between 1908 and 1975, more. than 130 bills were introduced to form a. Department of Education,2 but it took two. additional events toward the end of that period. to transform department status for education. from dream to reality.
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In higher education, Duncan has been the point man in chasing a goal Obama set early in his presidency: for the United States to become by 2020 the world leader in the share of young adults who have a college degree.
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The United States Education Secretary is Arne Duncan. The education secretary of the United States is Arne Duncan.