{"id":435408,"date":"2021-04-20T12:50:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=435408"},"modified":"2021-04-20T12:50:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T16:50:38","slug":"obamas-former-education-secretary-announces-hes-running-for-governor-of-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obamas-former-education-secretary-announces-hes-running-for-governor-of-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Former Education Secretary Announces He\u2019s Running For Governor Of Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobamas-former-education-secretary-announces-hes-running-for-governor-of-maryland%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=435408&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>John King, who served as secretary of education from 2016 to 2017 under then-President Barack Obama, will run for governor of Maryland in 2022, he announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>King centers schools and racial equity issues in his announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/johnkingforgovernor.com\/?fbclid=IwAR3NePfg_n3d3DuVCVwz_tiigAKbzrW17AzJuyRWSeZh-V1hYpkPf0hQzYE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a>. He is the fourth Democrat to declare for the race, <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/maryland\/2021\/04\/john-king-former-us-education-secretary-to-run-for-governor-in-md\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to WTOP News. Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is nearing the end of his second term and can not run again.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"13.086705202312\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m running for governor of Maryland because I see the vision of a prosperous future for our state, built on economic, racial, climate, and educational justice. We as Marylanders have a common destiny, and we can realize that future together. Join us: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dubQz5DMnJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/dubQz5DMnJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/681krg71vv\">pic.twitter.com\/681krg71vv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John King (@JohnBKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnBKing\/status\/1384462835393126400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>King\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/johnkingforgovernor.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> claims that he will \u201cexpand economic opportunity and dignity, create more good-paying jobs, and ensure all Marylanders have access to affordable, quality health care and a healthy, sustainable environment.\u201d He also will \u201censure [that] government is a force for good in people\u2019s lives.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/11\/23\/obamas-secretary-of-education-calls-for-safe-spaces-on-all-college-campuses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Obama\u2019s Outgoing Secretary Of Education Calls For \u2018Safe Spaces\u2019 On ALL College Campuses)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As secretary of education and New York\u2019s education commissioner, King was a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/01\/27\/powerful-ny-teachers-union-renounces-support-for-common-core\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proponent<\/a> of the Obama Administration\u2019s Common Core standardized testing. Nearly 20% of eligible New York students did not take the Common Core test in 2015, King\u2019s last full year as education commissioner, after parents <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/08\/12\/one-in-five-ny-students-skipped-common-core-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">boycotted<\/a> the tests. Left-wing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/09\/new-york-lawsuit-demands-anti-racist-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">activists<\/a> increasingly view standardized tests, including the SAT and ACT, as <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/10\/san-francisco-board-of-education-ends-merit-based-admissions-lowell-high-school-lottery-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contributing<\/a> to systemic racism.<\/p>\n<p>King also contributed to the Department of Education\u2019s deeper involvement in race and gender issues. He sent a 2016 letter warning public schools that the Obama administration determined that allowing transgender students to use the bathroom and locker room corresponding with their gender identity was a civil rights <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/05\/12\/obama-decrees-all-public-schools-must-allow-transgender-bathroom-use\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requirement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>King also issued guidance <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/05\/10\/obama-admin-colleges-shouldnt-ask-applicants-about-criminal-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recommending<\/a> that colleges stop asking students about their criminal records. The Education Department claimed that doing so was a racial justice issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cData show plainly that people of color are more likely to come in contact with the justice system due, in part, to punitive school disciplinary policies that disproportionately impact certain student groups and racial profiling,\u201d King\u2019s report <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/05\/10\/obama-admin-colleges-shouldnt-ask-applicants-about-criminal-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John King, who served as secretary of education from 2016 to 2017 under then-President Barack Obama, will run for governor of Maryland in 2022, he announced Tuesday.King centers schools and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276306,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}