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.