Reggie Wade
April 25, 2021, 10:05 AM
The COVID-19 outbreak that shut down in-person teaching exposed many of the U.S.’s educational weaknesses, according to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, who insisted there was still “a lot of work” to do to repair the damage left behind by the pandemic.
On a whistle-stop tour to promote the reopening of schools, Cardona said that parents, teachers and officials must now focus on the tough tasks that lie ahead, as students gradually make their way back into classrooms.
“There’s a lot of work to be done in the pandemic. It brought out the things that we really need to focus on because they’re worse,” Cardona told Yahoo Finance on the sidelines of an event at White Plains High School in New York on Friday. He was responding to a question about where the U.S. education system would be a year from now.
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National AFT President Randi Weingarten listens to a student’s question in Karie Hess’s first-grade classroom at Stapleton Elementary. Gary Herron photo.
It isn’t every day that a national president visits Rio Rancho, but such was the case April 9 when American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten came to town.
Former Rio Rancho Elementary teacher Stephanie Ly, now the American Federation of Teachers New Mexico president, and Rio Rancho School Employees Union President Billie Helean, who took the day off from her first-grade teaching duties at Stapleton Elementary, accompanied her. RRSEU Vice President Gino Satriana was also part of the entourage, which first visited the district’s transportation depot before making the short drive west on Northern Boulevard to Stapleton.
Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty Lawsuit is an attack on technical colleges and their students.
Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty Lawsuit is an attack on technical colleges and their students
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s (WILL) litigation challenging the Wisconsin Higher Educational Aid Board’s (HEAB) Minority Retention Grant is an attack on the state’s students of color and on Milwaukee Area Technical College.
According to the U.S. Department of Education’s “College Scorecard” 66% percent of MATC’s students receive federal Pell Grants. Those grants cover less than 60% of the cost of attending a two-year college. The HEAB Minority Undergraduate Retention grants are available to students at the state’s technical and tribal colleges and can help students who might otherwise not be able to attend college on Pell grants alone. Gaps between costs and financial aid, explains Dr.