John B. King Jr.

John B. King Jr. served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as the tenth U.S. Secretary of

Education. Over the course of his extensive and influential career in public education, he has

been a high school social studies teacher, a middle school principal, the first African American

and Puerto Rican to serve as New York State Education Commissioner, a college professor, and

the president and CEO of the Education Trust, a national education civil rights organization.

King is currently the chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY), the nation’s largest

comprehensive system of public higher education. Both of King’s parents were career New York

City public school educators. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, an education

researcher and former teacher, and his two daughters.

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