Education secretary nominee Miguel Cardona pushes for teacher testing, vaccination in Senate hearing
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Secretary of Education nominee Miguel Cardona told senators Wednesday that if confirmed, he will do everything in his power to reopen schools safely and called for prioritizing educators for the vaccine and increasing Covid testing at schools.
“There is no substitute for a classroom experience for our students, being in front of their teacher,” Cardona, Connecticut’s education commissioner, said at his confirmation hearing.
“So we have to do everything we can to safely reopen schools in a manner that gets the students back into their learning environment,” he added.