had "No Child Left Behind" which forcibly dismantled public schools by punishing underfunded schools in impoverished areas by tying future funding to standardized testing performance.

made that worse with "Race To The Top" and a few related programs which more aggressively accelerated that process. Many private "academies" replaced those impoverished schools in a growing cancer of privatization that started under "No Child Left Behind" but actually expanded and got worse under "Race To The Top." Also, "Common Core" while superficially nice sounding was just a normalization of the modern teacher's obligation to spend 90% of class time humoring whatever textbook companies want to drill students with, often deliberately wanting them to fail or give up so even more schools can be privatized.

Also, Arne Duncan got the job under because, according to , Arne Duncan played a mean game of basketball.