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John King served as New York’s state commissioner of education from 2011 to 2014, before joining the Obama administration as education secretary during the former president’s second term — and his appointment to SUNY chancellor immediately drew criticism from skeptics of standardized tests.
New York State and people and agencies residing here will receive more than $54 billion from the new stimulus package that passed in the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate Monday night. But none was being sought more vociferously by elected officials as the $4 billion that now is slated for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. MTA Chairman Patrick Foye was nothing if not direct Monday in the transcript of an interview with WCBS Radio provided by the agency. âThe MTA will get for 2021 deficit over $4 billion ... and that will put us in a position where we wonât have to dr...