Credit: (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Dec. 23, 2020: Miguel Cardona, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Education, speaks after being introduced at The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware as Biden looks on.
Not too long ago, federal education policy — and politics — drove much of what happened in New Jersey’s public schools.
No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Common Core — they were all monikers for policies crafted in Washington, D.C., that tightened testing and standards in the classrooms here and elsewhere.
The feds have stepped back a little from their involvement in K-12 education in the past several years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the whole situation into turmoil for the foreseeable future.