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President-elect Joe Biden selected Connecticut education commissioner Miguel Cardona as his education secretary on Tuesday. Dr. Cardona has a proven track record as an innovative leader who will fight for all students, and for a better, fairer, more successful education system, Biden said. He will also strive to eliminate long-standing inequities and close racial and socioeconomic opportunity gaps and expand access to community colleges, training, and public four-year colleges and universities to improve student success and grow a stronger, more prosperous, and more inclusive middle class.
The presidents of the nation s largest teachers unions, Randi Weingarten, of the American Federation of Teachers, and Becky Pringle, of the National Education Association, congratulated Cardona in statements Tuesday afternoon. The choice was seen as a safer pick than Weingarten or former NEA president Lily Eskelsen García. Both union leaders had been mentioned as potential candidates but