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More on Obama’s crony pick for Education Secretary

Oh, joy.  From CNS News:

In 2007, only 17 percent of eighth graders tested at or above grade level in reading in Chicago Public Schools – the school system administered by Arne Duncan since 2001.

President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday tapped Duncan to become secretary of education in the upcoming administration.

Duncan, hailed by Obama as a reformer, said he would like to take the lessons he learned in Chicago with him when he moves to Washington. “I’m also eager to apply some of the lessons we have learned here in Chicago to help school districts all across our country,” Duncan said after Obama formally named him to the job in Chicago.

According to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) report for 2007, Chicago public schools have consistently performed below the national average during Duncan’s tenure.

What do you do with a guy who presided over that kind of dismal failure in one friggin’ city?  You promote him to preside over the entire nation’s education system, naturally.  Duh.  I mean, literally…”duh!”

December 18, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | Obama, public education