MERIDEN, CT (WFSB) â While security will be tight and not many people in Meriden will get to see Wednesdayâs visit from the first lady, the city is doing a lot to make her feel welcome.
Gallery 53 in Meriden posted a sign congratulating Dr. Miguel Cardona on becoming U.S. education secretary and welcoming First Lady Dr. Jill Biden to the city. Gallery 53 / Facebook
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden will join U.S. Secretary of Education and Meriden native Miguel Cardona for a visit to the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in the Silver City.
Itâs clear that as soon as Biden and Cardona arrive in Meriden, they are going to be feeling the love of the community. Welcome signs have been put up around the city. Channel 3 found one above Gallery 53 on Colony Street that read âcongrats Dr. Cardona. Welcome Dr. Jill Biden.â
For Cardona, âItâs just a natural progression,â says former Meriden superintendent
For Cardona, âItâs just a natural progression,â says former Meriden superintendent
Miguel Cardona, then a first-time teacher, is seen in his classroom at Israel Putnam in 1998. File photo, Record-Journal
March 02, 2021 08:29PM By Michael Gagne, Record-Journal staff
MERIDEN â It was nearly 17 years ago when Miguel Cardona, then an assistant principal at Hanover School, assumed the role of principal at the school.Â
That was in the fall of 2003. Cardona had been an assistant principal at Hanover under the schoolâs former principal Mary Noonan Cortright, who at the time had been promoted to superintendent of schools in Meriden.Â
First Lady Jill Biden has arrived in Meriden, the hometown of new U.S. education secretary Miguel Cardona, receiving a warm welcome from the city before touring the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School.
First lady wades into school reopening debate with trip to 2 schools
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Replay Video UP NEXT First lady Jill Biden began wading into the debate over reopening schools with a visit to two schools Wednesday in Connecticut and Pennsylvania alongside the newly confirmed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. The trip was meant to give Biden, a community college teacher, and Cardona an opportunity to see how schools nationwide are taking different approaches to reopening, as teachers, parents and school district officials grapple with how to get kids in classrooms safely. At Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Meriden, Connecticut, Biden stopped in a kindergarten room Wednesday before she and Cardona visited a sensory room without students to learn about the modified approach for special needs students amid COVID-19. Biden and Cardona then met with a second-grade teacher who started the year distance learning and then t
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Students at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Meriden had a special visit Wednesday from First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and the new Education Secretary, Meriden-native Miguel Cardona.
This visit is a return to Cardona s roots both to his hometown and to where his education career started in a classroom in Meriden. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Dr. Miguel Cardona, the nation s new education secretary, was in Meriden Wednesday and talked about his desire to schools after closures due to the pandemic.