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See President Biden’s cabinet picks below and learn how they are likely to affect K-12 education.
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Former Iowa Governor and former Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack speaks during an event on Nov. 23, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa.Justin Hayworth/AP
Biden’s pick to lead the Agriculture Department, former Secretary Tom Vilsack, held the same role in the Obama administration.
In his previous tenure, Vilsack played a key role in implementing and defending heightened nutrition standards for school meals that were championed by former first lady Michelle Obama. Those rules, which have been rolled back under the Trump administration, called for less sodium and fat and more fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in school meals.
Good riddance, 2020. Here’s what I’m looking forward to in 2021 (opinion)
Updated Jan 01, 2021;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Thank God that 2020 is over, right? We’ve all had enough of the cursed year that brought coronavirus into our lives.
Frankly, I’ve been sick of hearing about and talking about COVID-19 for months now. It’s been a “Groundhog Day” movie that I can’t escape from. Groundhog Day movie staring Bill Murray. (Photo courtesy of Moviefone)
That doesn’t mean that I don’t take the deadly global pandemic seriously. I do. I know we have an ongoing situation on our hands.
‘We’re in a crisis’: Biden says U.S. needs to defeat climate change as he introduces team, priorities Amy B Wang
Replay Video UP NEXT President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday introduced members of his climate and energy teams in Wilmington, Del., nominees and appointees he said would lead his administration’s plans to address climate change, “the existential threat of our time.” “We literally have no time to lose,” said Biden. He noted that, this year alone, wildfires had burned more than 5 million acres across the West, hurricanes and tropical storms had pummeled the East and Gulf coasts, and droughts had ravaged parts of the Midwest.
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