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Jill Biden is traveling with newly confirmed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Wednesday

by Cassondra Kame on March 3, 2021 in News

Jill Biden will travel to Connecticut and Pennsylvania on Wednesday with newly confirmed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, a testament to a first lady well on the move.

Why it matters: Biden already is the only first lady to hold a full-time job. She also has a portfolio focused on education, cancer and veterans’ issues. Now, she’s built a robust staff in the East Wing and is planning a busy travel schedule of her own.

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Senate confirms Miguel Cardona as Biden’s education secretary

by Cassondra Kame on March 3, 2021 in Education News

WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed Miguel Cardona as President Joe Biden’s education secretary Monday.

Cardona, confirmed in a 64-33 vote, will oversee an Education Department that employs thousands and has an annual budget of more than $60 billion. He would also oversee the agency’s $1.5 trillion student loan portfolio.

He takes the helm of American schooling at a fraught time as many schools have kept their doors closed to in-person teaching as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Debates about reopening K-12 classrooms have pitted teachers, administrators, school boards and parents against each other. Colleges are bleeding money. Student debt

New Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says ‘reopen schools.’ Here’s where he stands on other key issues

by Cassondra Kame on March 2, 2021 in Education Publishing

U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is officially the new point person for American education — at a time when the stakes couldn’t be higher.

The Senate confirmed Cardona’s appointment Monday after the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions advanced his nomination in February. Cardona, 45, is rising from his post as Connecticut’s commissioner of education and taking control of American schooling at a fraught time.

Debates about when and how to reopen K-12 classrooms have pitted teachers, administrators, school boards and parents against each other. Colleges are bleeding money. Student debt is mounting. Learners are struggling to keep up

Education secretary nominee Miguel Cardona on COVID, school reopening

by Cassondra Kame on February 12, 2021 in Education Foundation

President Joe Biden’s nominee for education secretary is promising to help reopen schools but says much of the hardest work will come after that as schools try to address long-standing disparities worsened by the pandemic. (Feb. 3)

AP Domestic

A Senate committee advanced the nomination of Miguel Cardona as the next U.S. education secretary Thursday, putting him a step closer to guiding the reopening of more schools, albeit under a scaled-back plan announced by the White House this week.

Cardona, the commissioner of education in Connecticut, won praise from Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Committee on Health, Education,

Education Secretary Pick Miguel Cardona Wants To ‘Safely’ Reopen Schools

by Cassondra Kame on February 4, 2021 in Education Center

At his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, President Joe Biden’s secretary of education nominee, Miguel Cardona, was largely praised by Democratic and Republican lawmakers, who said they would work to confirm him quickly, as schools continue to flounder due to the challenges of COVID-19.

Cardona, who most recently served as the commissioner of education for the state of Connecticut, told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that he would work to safely reopen schools for in-person education.

“Our nation’s education challenges didn’t begin with the pandemic, but it has exacerbated inequities in our educational system. These inequities will endure,