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Connecticut educators denounce right-wing record of Biden’s pick for Education Secretary
Miguel A. Cardona [Credit: Connecticut State Colleges & Universities]
In the eyes of the Democratic Party and all of its backers, Cardona’s two chief qualifications for the position are that he is Latino and that he has forcefully advocated the reopening of schools during the pandemic as Connecticut’s commissioner of education. If Biden takes office in January, Cardona will immediately promote racial politics to accelerate the school reopening policies pursued by the Trump administration, fraudulently claiming this will be for the benefit of “black and brown” students.
Miguel Cardona to serve as America’s next secretary of education.
Cardona, 45, Connecticut’s first Latino education commissioner, will have to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate after Biden’s inauguration in late January.
President-elect Joe Biden speaks Tuesday ahead of the Christmas holiday at the Queen Theatre in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)
Biden’s choice of Cardona to head the Department of Education will fulfill a campaign promise he made to appoint someone who had experience in the public school system. Someone with Cardona’s track record project-raised, previously a public school teacher and principal is a complete deviation from current Education Secretary
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Connecticut Chief of Schools Miguel Cardona is expected to head south to Washington, D.C. to serve in President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet as Education Secretary in a meteoric two-year rise to national prominence.
The appointment of Cardona, a lifelong resident of Meriden, could be officially announced as soon as sometime on Tuesday, Dec. 22.
The Washington Post first reported last week that Cardona, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, who was president of the National Education Association for six years, and Leslie T. Fenwick, the dean emeritus of the Howard University School of Education and an education policy professor, were the front-runners for the position, though it now appears Cardona won out.