Arne Duncan Cries as He Describes Sadness at Leaving Dept. of Education

ARNE DUNCAN: "And while I'm deeply sad to leaving, I'm extraordinary happy and thankful and proud that John is going to carry on this work with the team. I want to thank everybody for their hard I quickly want to thank my parents as well. My dad is a lifelong educator at the university of Chicago. Taught there all his life.

My mother started program before we were born and raised all of us as part of that program. And that changed our lives. And all our life we saw what kids could do when they were given a chance. And that's why we do this work today. And to be able to see what she did at one little corner at 46th and Greenwood now have the chance over the past six and a half years to try to have an impact around the nation because this man gave us a chance, for my family I can't tell you how much it means to us.

And then finally just to my family and I love this work, I love this team, I love the president, I love the chance to serve. The only thing I love more is you guys and I can't wait to come home and see a couple more track meets and maybe get to coach Ryan a little bit and maybe have a few more dinners and maybe go for a movie sometime, that would be amazing."