| − | '''Arne Duncan''', a crony of [[Barack Obama]], was installed by him as the Secretary of the [[U.S. Department of Education]] in 2009. He was formerly "the chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools, a position to which he was appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley, from June 2001 through December 2008, becoming the longest-serving big-city education superintendent in the country."<ref>http://ed.gov/news/staff/bios/duncan.html</ref> | + | '''Arne Duncan''', a crony of [[Barack Obama]], was installed by him as the Secretary of the [[U.S. Department of Education]] in 2009. He was formerly "the Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools, a position to which he was appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley, from June 2001 through December 2008, becoming the longest-serving big-city education superintendent in the country."<ref>http://ed.gov/news/staff/bios/duncan.html</ref> |