New York Commissioner John King willl resign and join the staff of the U.S. Department of Education. Early reports said he would be Deputy Secretary of Education, but Stephanie Sumin of politico.com tweeted that he would be a “senior advisor” to Duncan. Thus, he would not require Senate confirmation.
Like Duncan, King is a strong advocate for Common Core, high-stakes testing, and value-added-modeling (judging teachers by student test scores).
Stephanie Simon (@StephanieSimon_)
12/10/14, 6:11 PM
.@JohnKingNYSED to get Jim Shelton’s portfolio at @usedgov but not the title of deputy secretary; he will be “senior advisor” to Duncan
The rumor in Néw York is that Cuomo pushed out King.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
King was thrown under the bus by Tisch who is an even bigger problem for public education in NY than King John. Some of those senile people on the Board of Regents need to get her out of the Chancellor role ASAP. She is a disaster!
So you need to teach for two years, bungle education policy in a large state, alienate almost everyone you come in contact with and that’s your ticket to the Federal level?
As bad as the King debacle is, it exposes the culture of monied privilege that is at the heart of the problem. Seriously, would Tisch be the Chancellor if she wasn’t filthy rich?
YEP!
Too bad we didn’t do that, eh?!?
It’s the corrupt revolving door in DC. The govt regulators no longer work for us- they work for private corporations that have a high paid position waiting when they’ve finished their snow job on the country. Arne’s been rewriting the SPED regs to suit the tech industry & Wall St. for years.
Elizabeth Warren has been speaking publicly about the corrupt revolving door between the US Treasury & Wall St. in the Democratic & Republican parties.
The intersection of government and business for the benefit of the elite at the detriment of the rest. What’s that called in political science?
In this case, glad to say “I told you so!” and it can’t happen soon enough. (although I feel somewhat guilty having our “problem” foisted on the entire country).
Now I just hope it’s not a case of “out of the frying pan and into the fire”.
Ellen T Klock
This was nothing more than Andrew Cuomo waiting until after the election to rid himself of a man who did nothing than create disasters for him during the last three years.
Cuomo arranged for Obama to give the man to Arne Duncan in a gopher capacity until he can land a gig in some big reformista corporation.
The absolutely classic “kick upstairs” to a job with no title and no responsibility but “spun” in the press release like it was some big deal.
Get Tisch out too!!!!
How does she sleep at night???
If it is true is that Cuomo is pushing King out, I fear that means Cuomo wants someone who is more aggressive than King to help him achieve his goal of destroying public education in NY.
Diane: the following email was sent by Arne Duncan to ED staff late last night. fyi. Max
> As announced earlier this fall, after nearly six years of service, Jim Shelton has decided to step down as our Deputy Secretary toward the end of the year. Jim has brought a profound understanding of how to encourage innovation to address some of the biggest challenges faced by our education system and, more broadly, our country, and I’m grateful to Jim for all he has contributed while at the Department. > > I am excited to announce that New York State Education Commissioner John B. King, Jr. will join the U.S. Department of Education as a senior advisor. King is expected to join the Department in early 2015 and will be delegated the roles and responsibilities of the Deputy Secretary, which includes managing the Department’s operations and overseeing implementation of major initiatives.
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I am going to venture a guess that they are well aware that it would be a difficult confirmation battle, if the position required confirmation. His track record is a public relations mine field. We won’t miss him.
Because Senate confirmation would and could never occur. Poster child for Fed take-over and over-reach of U.S. education. Now that would be a hearing I would wait in line for.
This shows how corrupt politics really is. He is being made a defacto undersecretary by being called an adviser. The Obama administrator of course would never want hearings to confirm King. After all, there are about 200,000 New York teachers waiting in line to testify against him.
I’m up for the fight – but cripes! First they destroy education, then any semblance of advise and consent, and now they’re twisting the English language and commonly accepted definitions. Enough!!!!!
Cuomo pushed out is more like Cuomo helped plan and place. King will be there waiting for a Cuomo presidential run and win, and Ed Secretary win will be celebrated by every 1% privatizer, suffered by 99% students and educators.
So can the federal government just restructure the DOE whenever they want to avoid senate hearings?
Might as well. What’s another waiver. Remember what Arne would say: “It’s for the children. Time can’t wait.” and “It’s a moral issue.”
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First thing Cuomo has done right…
Did King write this bio himself?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_King,_Jr.
I think the myth of “I would have been lost to the mean streets of the city too, and THE ONLY reason I wasn’t was great teachers, so we should blame lost kids on teachers that aren’t great enough” is getting tired and used up (by King, Klein…who else?)
King’s a crook and a hypocrite – he should have gone from the position of NYS Commissioner of Education directly to prison, not to a post in the US Department of Education.