I'm starting to think this whole "President" thing was just a ploy by Obama to gather the kickin' assest pick up basketball team ever.
(CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama is set to announce Arne Duncan, the head of Chicago public schools, as his choice for education secretary at a news conference Tuesday, a Democratic source said.
Duncan has headed the Illinois city's public schools district since 2001. It's the third-largest in the nation.
Like Obama, he is a graduate of Harvard University.
Duncan also worked for six years with the Ariel Education Initiative, which tried to create educational opportunities for inner-city students on Chicago's South Side.
Obama and Duncan often play basketball together, and Duncan was one of those who played with the president-elect in a game on Election Day.
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