Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will not be running for mayor against Lori Lightfoot in the 2023 election, he announced.
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will not be running for mayor against Lori Lightfoot in the 2023 election, he announced on Tuesday.
Duncan, 57, runs Chicago CRED, a nonprofit aimed at violent prevention. Before that, Duncan served as President Barack Obama’s education secretary and CEO of Chicago Public Schools. He has been considering a run for months but ruled it out today, saying in a statement, “I am exactly where I need to be, doing the work I love.”
In the statement, Duncan said he will “work with anyone serious about making our city safer,” leaving open the possibility that he’ll back challengers to Lightfoot. Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visits students at the Chicago Vocational Career Academy in Chicago on Friday, 17, 2017. Lightfoot has not formally announced her re-election campaign but is widely expected to seek a second term. Her political team has
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