King has been one of the most influential and loathed figures of the corporate school-reform movement in recent years. A growing body of research and evidence has suggested that the policies he has peddled throughout his career have been ineffective and destructive to communities, educators and students, especially to the population he claims to be working on behalf of: poor African-American and Hispanic children. The committee should reject his nomination and call on President Obama to nominate a serious candidate who supports equitable, progressive public education for all.
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