Thank you for having me. Great to see you. Since being confirmed, i understand you traveled to 16 states plus Puerto Rico in a territory that doesnt come to visiting schools and students. What have you learned during those trips . I learned number one the students are resilient and educators are rock stars and that we want to come back to school safely but we missed the peer to peer interaction. We miss engaging with teachers and we want to come back to a system that is better than the one that we left in march of 2020. Thats what i heard throughout the country and im excited to be in the position to support that and influence that with the build back better agenda, i am confident that we are going to get it done. There were a lot of buzz we words, peer to peer. Lets talk about budget. You proposed 102. 8 billion budgets you said it makes good on president Bidens Campaign Commitment and would begin to address the on significant inequities that students of color and teachers confront ev
Variant on the rise. With another installment on our Opportunity And Crisis series this time investing in educational equity. President biden has made equity a central role of the administration and a central figure in that effort is our guest today. He is the secretary of education, mr. Cardona, welcome. Thank you for having me. Great to see you. Since being confirmed, i understand you traveled to 16 states plus Puerto Rico in a territory that doesnt come to visiting schools and students. What have you learned during those trips . I learned number one the students are resilient and educators are rock stars and that we want to come back to school safely but we missed the peer to peer interaction. We miss engaging with teachers and we want to come back to a system that is better than the one that we left in march of 2020. Thats what i heard throughout the country and im excited to be in the position to support that and influence that with the build back better agenda, i am confident tha
Mister secretary, welcome. Thank you for having me. Thank you, again, and great to see you. Since being confirmed, i understand you have traveled to 16 states, plus puerto rico, and another territory, that doesnt come to mind offhand. Visiting schools, and students. What have you learned during those trips . I learned, number one, our students are resilient, and our educators are rock stars. We want to come back to school. We want to come back to school safely, but we missed the peer to peer interaction. We miss the engagement with teachers. We want to come back with the system that is better than the one we left, in 2020. That is what i heard throughout the country, and i am excited to be in a position, now where i can support that influence, with the build back better agenda, im confident, we can get that done. There are plenty of buzzwords there, appeared appear, and other things that we will get to. In our conversation. But, lets talk about budget. You proposed, nearly, a 102. 8 bi
Since being confirmed, i understand you traveled to 16 states plus Puerto Rico in a territory that doesnt come to visiting schools and students. What have you learned during those trips . I learned number one the students are resilient and educators are rock stars and that we want to come back to school safely but we missed the peer to peer interaction. We miss engaging with teachers and we want to come back to a system that is better than the one that we left in march of 2020. Thats what i heard throughout the country and im excited to be in the position to support that and influence that with the build back better agenda, i am confident that we are going to get it done. There were a lot of buzz we words, peer to peer. Lets talk about budget. You proposed 102. 8 billion budgets you said it makes good on president Bidens Campaign Commitment and would begin to address the on significant inequities that students of color and teachers confront every day in underserved schools across ameri
Our students are resilient, that our educators are rock stars and that we want to come back to school. We want to come back to school safely, but we miss the peertopeer interaction, we miss the engagement with teachers, and we want to come back to a system thats better than the one we left in march 2020. Thats what i heard throughout the country, and im excited to be in a position now where i can help support that, influence the that. With the build become better agenda, im confident were going to get it done. There are a bunch of things were going to get to in our conversation, but lets talk about budget. You proposed a nearly what is it, 102. 8 billion budget. You said, quote, makes good on president Bidens Campaign Commitment to reverse years of underinvestment in federal education programs and would begin to address the significant inequities that millions of students, primarily students of color, and teachers confront every day in underserved schools across america. Lets talk spec