Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education
Education experience like his was needed, not prosecutorial background or spirit.
How Obama, determined to close down the ignominious Guantanamo Bay prison, the epitome of anti-American values, could possibly pick Joel Klein, Esq., over Duncan, when the man, devoided of education background, was loathed and feared and being sued for running his little Gulag in the NYC DOE micrososm ?

" Mr. Duncan has seven years' experience as chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third-largest school district, where he has earned a solid reputation for confronting pressing issues in public education, like how to raise teacher quality, how to transform weak schools and when to shutter those that are irredeemably failing. He played professional basketball in Australia from 1987 to 1991 (he is 6 foot 5); then, from 1991 to 1998, he directed the Ariel Education Initiative, a philanthropic effort with a small staff that seeks to create better schooling opportunities for poor children on the South Side of Chicago. He was director of magnet schools and deputy chief of staff to the Chicago schools chief, Paul G. Vallas, from 1998 to 2001.
Mr. Duncan was born on Nov. 6, 1964. He comes from a family of educators: his mother founded and has run a vaunted Chicago tutoring program for 48 years. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and sits on the Harvard Board of Overseers. Mr. Duncan tutored Chicago children during a year he took off from studying sociology at Harvard."

New York Times, 2/16/09