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Biden to pick Miguel Cardona, proponent of reopening schools, as education secretary Joey Garrison and Erin Richards, USA TODAY Biden rolled out his climate and environment team Replay Video UP NEXT WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday he plans to nominate Miguel Cardona, the education commissioner of Connecticut, as secretary of the Department of Education, choosing a major proponent of reopening schools during the coronavirus pandemic. © Devin Leith-Yessian, Berlin Citizen/Record-Journal via AP Miguel Cardona will be nominated as the Biden administr...

Column: We cannot forget the awfulness of Betsy DeVos Steve Nelson Modified: 12/21/2020 10:10:14 PM The call went out to “RESIST!” Bernie Sanders? AOC? Malcom X? Saul Alinsky? No, this was Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ plea to Education Department staffers as she ends her term in office. As reported in The Hill, she implored them to “Be the resistance against forces that will derail you from doing what’s right for students.” DeVos evoking the language of progressive activism is rich — almost as rich as DeVos herself. She has gotten scant attention in the chaos of these last...

Biden to pick Miguel Cardona, proponent of reopening schools, as education secretary Joey Garrison and Erin Richards, USA TODAY Biden rolled out his climate and environment team Replay Video UP NEXT WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday he plans to nominate Miguel Cardona, the education commissioner of Connecticut, as secretary of the Department of Education, choosing a major proponent of reopening schools during the coronavirus pandemic. © Devin Leith-Yessian, Berlin Citizen/Record-Journal via AP Miguel Cardona will be nominated as the Biden administr...

USA TODAY WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday he plans to nominate Miguel Cardona, the education commissioner of Connecticut, as secretary of the Department of Education, choosing a major proponent of reopening schools during the coronavirus pandemic. If confirmed by the Senate, Cardona, 45, would lead Biden's push to reopen the majority of public schools in the first 100 days of his administration. Biden's pick would add another Latino to his increasingly diverse Cabinet. The selection marks a rapid rise for Cardona, who has served as Connecticut's education chief fo...

Ted Diadiun’s telling rant against good government Updated Dec 16, 2020; In his Dec. 13 column, “Just two of the reasons to lament coming Biden administration,” Ted Diadiun warns us of a coming Joe Biden debacle, repeating U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ mantra that “government has never made anything better ....” He laments the fact that President-elect Biden will appoint officials who will use government to address problems related to public education, immigration, and abortion. While Diadiun extols DeVos’ “school choice,” he fails to acknowledge that “choice...