Report: Arne Duncan lobbies against appointment of New York education official

It would not happen in Missouri, where Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro is in lockstep with Arne Duncan and the so-called reform movement in education, but an article in today's Washington Post provides evidence of the steps the federal government is taking to impose its will on local education.

The article indicates officials, including Duncan, in the U. S. Department of Education lobbied New York's new mayor Bill de Blasio in an effort to keep de Blasio from appointing Joshua P. Starr, an opponent of standardized testing excesses, as chancellor of schools. The appontment was given to veteran educator Carmen Farina: